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^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the horizon: orbis finiens (Div. 2. 44. 92)