Where does “finalist” come from?

finalist (Serbo-Croatian) comes from Serbo-Croatian finále — finale.

finalist (Serbo-Croatian): finalist

Definitions

  1. finalist

Ancestry of “finalist”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Serbo-Croatianfinálefinale
Every word from Serbo-Croatian finále
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