finalitas
Latin
Etymology
From fīnālis (“of or pertaining to boundaries; of or pertaining to the end of something”) + -tās.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [fiːˈnaː.lɪ.taːs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [fiˈnaː.li.t̪as]
Noun
fīnālitās f (genitive fīnālitātis); third declension
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | fīnālitās | fīnālitātēs |
| genitive | fīnālitātis | fīnālitātum |
| dative | fīnālitātī | fīnālitātibus |
| accusative | fīnālitātem | fīnālitātēs |
| ablative | fīnālitāte | fīnālitātibus |
| vocative | fīnālitās | fīnālitātēs |
Related terms
Descendants
- Catalan: finalitat
- French: finalité
- Italian: finalità
- Portuguese: finalidade
- Romanian: finalitate
- Spanish: finalidad
References
- “finalitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- finalitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.