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語源

Derived from fīnis (“boundary; limit”). Compare lēgitimus, maritimus.

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発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [fiːˈnɪ.tɪ.mʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [fiˈniː.t̪i.mus]

形容詞

fīnitimus (feminine fīnitima, neuter fīnitimum); first/second-declension adjective

1. (followed by a dative or used alone) Bordering upon, adjoining, adjacent, neighbouring or neighboring; nearly; end; boundary related, like, closely linked.

   Synonyms: vīcīnus, propinquus, contiguus, proximus

   Antonyms: remōtus, longinquus

2. (followed by a dative or used alone) Concerning or originating from neighbouring people.
3. neighbors
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 1.29–30:

     scīlicet arma magis quam sīdera, Rōmule, nōrās,
     cūraque fīnitimōs vincere maior erat.

     In good truth, Romulus, thou wast better acquainted with arms than with the stars, and thy greater care was to conquer thy neighbours.
     (Henry T. Riley, trans.: 1851 CE)

語形変化

First/second-declension adjective.

関連する語

派生した語

• → Italian: finitimo
• → Portuguese: finítimo
• → Spanish: finítimo

参照

• “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• finitimus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be contiguous, adjacent to a country: finitimum esse terrae