Where does “finito” come from?
finito (Spanish) comes from Italian finito, from Latin fīnītus, from Latin fīniō, from Latin fīnis, from Proto-Indo-European dʰnh₂-.
finito (Spanish): finite; Diminutive of fino
Definitions
- finite; Diminutive of fino
Ancestry of “finito”, step by step
finito traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Italian finito
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Italian | finito | past participle of finire; finished; finite |
| 2 | Latin | fīnītus | finished, terminated, having been finished or terminated |
| 3 | Latin | fīniō | to finish, terminate |
| 4 | Latin | fīnis | end |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | dʰnh₂- | — |
via Spanish fino
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Spanish | fino | fine |
| 2 | Spanish | fin | end; purpose, aim, objective, goal; end, stop,... |
| 3 | Old Spanish | fin | — |
| 4 | Latin | finis | end; limit, border, bound boundary, frontier;... |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | dʰeygʷ- | to stick into, pierce; to dig; to ditch; to... |
Words derived from “finito”