Where does “final” come from?

final (Middle English) comes from Old French final, from Latin fīnālis, from Latin -ālis, from Proto-Italic -ālis — forms relational adjectives.

Ancestry of “final”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchfinalfinal, definitive, last
2LatinfīnālisOf or pertaining to boundaries
3Latin-ālis—
4Proto-Italic-ālisforms relational adjectives

Words derived from “final”

Every word from Proto-Italic -ālis →