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- Latin · derived fromfīnis“end; boundary, limit”
- Late Latin · derived fromfīnālis
- Italian · borrowed fromfinale“ending”
- English todayfinale
From Italian finale (“ending”), from Late Latin fīnālis, from Latin fīnis (“end; boundary, limit”). Doublet of final.
Words from the same roots
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.