The story
- Latin · derived fromfīnālis“of or relating to the end or to boundaries”
- Old French · derived fromfinal
- Middle English · inherited fromfinal
- English todayfinal
From Middle English final, fynal, fynall, from Old French final, from Latin fīnālis (“of or relating to the end or to boundaries”), from fīnis (“end”); see fine. Replaced native English endly (“final”).
Words from the same roots
Old Frenchfinal all →
finial
Latinfīnālis all →
finial
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.