Where does “finale” come from?

Finale comes from Italian finale, from Latin finalis, from Latin finis meaning "end" or "boundary," from Proto-Indo-European dʰeygʷ-.

finale (English): The grand end of something, especially a show or...

Definitions

  1. The grand end of something, especially a show or...

Ancestry of “finale”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italianfinalefinal, ending; end, ending, conclusion; finale
2LatinfīnālisOf or pertaining to boundaries
3Latin-ālis
4Proto-Italic-ālisforms relational adjectives

Words derived from “finale

Every word from Proto-Italic -ālis
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