The story
- Renaissance Latin · derived fromfinitūdō“signifying a noun of state”
- English todaydefinitude
From de- + finitude or de- + Latin fin(is) + -itude, ultimately from Renaissance Latin finitūdō (“signifying a noun of state”), from fīnis (“end, limit”) + -tūdō.
Words from the same roots
Renaissance Latinfinitūdō all →
finitudeindefinitude
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.