finiens

Latin

Etymology

Present active participle of fīniō (“finish; limit; appoint”).

Participle

fīniēns (genitive fīnientis); third-declension one-termination participle

  1. Finishing, terminating.
  2. Appointing, setting.
  3. Limiting, binding.
  4. Restraining.

Declension

Third-declension participle.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masc./Fem. Neuter Masc./Fem. Neuter
Nominative fīniēns fīnientēs fīnientia
Genitive fīnientis fīnientium
Dative fīnientī fīnientibus
Accusative fīnientem fīniēns fīnientēs
fīnientīs		 fīnientia
Ablative fīniente
fīnientī1		 fīnientibus
Vocative fīniēns fīnientēs fīnientia

1When used purely as an adjective.

References
  • “finiens”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “finiens”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • finiens in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • the horizon: orbis finiens (Div. 2. 44. 92)
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