Etymology

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Hebrew סופי
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  1. Hebrew · derived fromסופי“finite”
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Coined by mathematician Benjamin Weiss in 1973, based on Hebrew סופי (“finite”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.