different between finis vs minis

English

Etymology

From Middle English finis, from Latin f?nis (“end; limit”). Doublet of fine.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /?f?n?s/, /fi??ni?/

Noun

finis

1. The end (of a book or other work).
   • 1836, — Frederick Marryat, Mr Midshipman Easy

     He had gone through the work from the title-page to the finis at least forty times, and had just commenced it over again.

   • , Episode 16

     Highly providential was the appearance on the scene of Corny Kelleher when Stephen was blissfully unconscious but for that man in the gap turning up at the eleventh hour the finis might have been that he might have been a candidate for the accident ward […]

Esperanto

Verb

finis

1. past of fini

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fi.ni/
• Homophones: fini, finie, finies, finit, finît
• Rhymes: -i

Adjective

finis

1. masculine plural of fini

Verb

finis

1. first-person singular present indicative of finir
2. second-person singular present indicative of finir
3. first-person singular past historic of finir
4. second-person singular past historic of finir
5. second-person singular imperative of finir

Participle

finis

1. masculine plural of the past participle of finir

Ido

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?finis/

Verb

finis

1. past of finar

Latin

Etymology

Disputed. Possibly for *fignis, from Proto-Indo-European *d?eyg?- (“to stick, set up”), whence fig?, or for *fidnis, from Proto-Indo-European *b?eyd- (“to split”), whence find?.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?fi?.nis/, [?fi?n?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?fi.nis/, [?fi?nis]

Noun

f?nis m (genitive f?nis); third declension

1. end
   • Vergil. Aeneid, I

2. limit, border, bound boundary, frontier
3. (in the plural) boundaries, bounds; by extension, territory, region, lands
4. limit in duration, term (duration of a set length)
5. end, purpose, aim, object, telos
6. death, end (of life)
7. amount (in late juridical writings)

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem, ablative singular in -e or -?).

Usage notes

According to Lewis & Short, f?nis does occasionally appear as a feminine noun in both the ante-classical and post-classical eras.

Derived terms

• aff?nis
• f?ni?
• f?nitimus

Antonyms

• initium
• or?g?

Descendants

Verb

f?n?s

1. second-person singular present active of f?ni?

References

Further reading

• finis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• finis in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• finis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• finis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.

Pijin

Etymology

From English finish

Particle

finis

1. Tense marker for the past perfect tense

English

Noun

minis

1. plural of mini

Anagrams

• imins, misin

Catalan

Verb

minis

1. second-person singular present subjunctive form of minar

French

Adjective

minis

1. masculine plural of mini

Haitian Creole

Noun

minis

1. minister

Derived terms

• premye minis (“prime minister”)
• vis-minis (“vice minister”)

Latin

Noun

min?s

1. dative plural of mina
2. ablative plural of mina

Latvian

Participle

minis (def. minušais)

1. indefinite past active participle of m?t 

Declension

Ojibwe

Noun

minis (plural minisan)

1. island, isle

Related terms

• Minisenh (Manhattan Island)
• minisens (small island)
• Minisi (Long Island)