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finish

/ˈfɪnɪʃ/FIH-nish
/ˈfɪnɪʃ/FIH-nish

Meaningto end

Common meaning: to complete or end

Journey through time

  1. Aryan root · reconstructed√BHID‘cleave, bite’No written record; from Skeat’s list of Aryan roots, no. 240, p. 738 · scan
  2. Latinfīnis‘a boundary, end, limit’
  3. Englishfinish‘to complete or end’ · today

fin also in: finefinalfinitefinancedefine

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
  • No UK recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-GB voice.
  • US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
  • No US recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-US voice.

Origin: Built on Latin fīnis ‘a boundary, end, limit’.

Did you know: our wording, based on Lewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), entry fīnis, p. 751 · dictionary scan

Roots

  • fīnis Latin “a boundary, end, limit”

Related words

confinedefinedefinitefinalfinancefinefiniteinfinite

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