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finitimus
finitimus
Latin
Alternative forms
- fīnitumus
Adjective
fīnitimus m (feminine fīnitima, neuter fīnitimum); first/second declension
- (followed by a dative or an absolute ablative) Bordering upon, adjoining, adjacent, neighbouring or neighboring; nearly; end; boundary related, like, closely linked.
- (followed by a dative or an absolute ablative) Concerning or originating from neighbouring people.
- (in plural, substantive) Neighbors or neighbours.
Inflection
First/second declension.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| nominative | fīnitimus | fīnitima | fīnitimum | fīnitimī | fīnitimae | fīnitima | |
| genitive | fīnitimī | fīnitimae | fīnitimī | fīnitimōrum | fīnitimārum | fīnitimōrum | |
| dative | fīnitimō | fīnitimō | fīnitimīs | ||||
| accusative | fīnitimum | fīnitimam | fīnitimum | fīnitimōs | fīnitimās | fīnitima | |
| ablative | fīnitimō | fīnitimā | fīnitimō | fīnitimīs | |||
| vocative | fīnitime | fīnitima | fīnitimum | fīnitimī | fīnitimae | fīnitima | |
Related terms
References
- finitimus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- finitimus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- FINITIMUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “finitimus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be contiguous, adjacent to a country: finitimum esse terrae
- to be contiguous, adjacent to a country: finitimum esse terrae