finis

Borrowed from Latin fīnis (“end; limit”).

finis

1. The end (of a book or other work).
   • 1836, — Frederick Marryat, Mr Midshipman Easy

     He had gone through the work from the title-page to the finis at least forty times, and had just commenced it over again.

   • 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare & Co.; Sylvia Beach, OCLC 560090630; republished London: Published for the Egoist Press, London by John Rodker, Paris, October 1922, OCLC 2297483:

     , Episode 16

     Highly providential was the appearance on the scene of Corny Kelleher when Stephen was blissfully unconscious but for that man in the gap turning up at the eleventh hour the finis might have been that he might have been a candidate for the accident ward […]

finis

1. past of fini

• IPA^(key): /fi.ni/
• Homophones: fini, finie, finies, finit, finît
• Rhymes: -i

finis

1. masculine plural of fini

finis

1. first-person singular present indicative of finir
2. second-person singular present indicative of finir
3. first-person singular past historic of finir
4. second-person singular past historic of finir
5. second-person singular imperative of finir

finis

1. masculine plural of the past participle of finir

finis

1. past of finar

Disputed.[1] Possibly for *fignis, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeygʷ- (“to stick, set up”), whence figō[2], or for *fidnis, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- (“to split”), whence findō.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfiː.nis/, [ˈfiː.nɪs]

fīnis m (genitive fīnis); third declension

1. end
   • Vergil. Aeneid, I

     Deus dabit finem quoque his

     God will give an end to these (things) also.

2. limit, border, boundary
3. (in the plural) boundaries; by extension, territory, region, lands
4. limit in duration, term (duration of a set length)
   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita libri 26.1:

     huic generi militum senatus eundem, quem Cannensibus, finem statuerat militiae.

     For this class of soldier the senate had established a limit in duration to their military service, which was the same as the men at Cannae.

5. purpose
6. death

Third declension, alternative ablative singular in -ī and accusative plural in -īs.

• affīnis
• fīniō
• fīnitimus

fīnīs

1. second-person singular present active of fīniō

• finis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• finis in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• finis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• finis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to enlarge the boundaries of a kingdom: fines (imperii) propagare, extendere, (longius) proferre
    
  • to evacuate territory: (ex) finibus excedere
    
  • to put an end to one's life: vitae finem facere
    
  • such was the end of... (used of a violent death): talem vitae exitum (not finem) habuit (Nep. Eum. 13)
    
  • to finish, complete, fulfil, accomplish a thing: finem facere alicuius rei
    
  • to finish, complete, fulfil, accomplish a thing: finem imponere, afferre, constituere alicui rei
    
  • to finish, complete, fulfil, accomplish a thing: ad finem aliquid adducere
    
  • to come to an end: finem habere
    
  • to cease speaking: finem dicendi facere
    
  • to impose fixed limitations: fines certos terminosque constituere
    
  • to put an end to war: belli finem facere, bellum finire
    

From English finish

finis

1. Tense marker for the past perfect tense