finitimus

Latin

Alternative forms

• fīnitumus

Etymology

Derived from fīnis (“boundary; limit”). Compare lēgitimus, maritimus.

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Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /fiːˈni.ti.mus/, [fiːˈnɪt̪ɪmʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /fiˈni.ti.mus/, [fiˈniːt̪imus]

Adjective

fīnitimus (feminine fīnitima, neuter fīnitimum); first/second-declension adjective

1. (followed by a dative or used alone) Bordering upon, adjoining, adjacent, neighbouring or neighboring; nearly; end; boundary related, like, closely linked.

   Synonyms: vīcīnus, propinquus, contiguus, proximus

   Antonyms: remōtus, longinquus

2. (followed by a dative or used alone) Concerning or originating from neighbouring people.
3. neighbors
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 1.29–30:

     scīlicet arma magis quam sīdera, Rōmule, nōrās,
     cūraque fīnitimōs vincere maior erat.

     In good truth, Romulus, thou wast better acquainted with arms than with the stars, and thy greater care was to conquer thy neighbours.
     (Henry T. Riley, trans.: 1851 CE)

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	fīnitimus	fīnitima	fīnitimum		fīnitimī	fīnitimae	fīnitima
Genitive	fīnitimī	fīnitimae	fīnitimī		fīnitimōrum	fīnitimārum	fīnitimōrum
Dative	fīnitimō		fīnitimō		fīnitimīs
Accusative	fīnitimum	fīnitimam	fīnitimum		fīnitimōs	fīnitimās	fīnitima
Ablative	fīnitimō	fīnitimā	fīnitimō		fīnitimīs
Vocative	fīnitime	fīnitima	fīnitimum		fīnitimī	fīnitimae	fīnitima

Related terms

• fīnālis
• fīniēns
• fīniō
• fīnis
• fīnītiō
• fīnītīvus
• fīnītor
• fīnītus

Descendants

• Italian: finitimo
• Portuguese: finítimo
• Spanish: finítimo

References

• “finitimus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “finitimus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• finitimus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• finitimus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be contiguous, adjacent to a country: finitimum esse terrae