finalis

finalis

1. (music) A keynote.

Borrowed from Latin finalis.

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• Hyphenation: fi‧na‧lis

finalis f (plural finalissen)

1. (music) keynote

   Synonyms: begintoon, grondtoon, tonica

finalis (plural finalis-finalis)

1. finalist

From fīnis (“end; boundary, limit”) +‎ -ālis.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [fiːˈnaː.lɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [fiˈnaː.lis]

fīnālis (neuter fīnāle); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. Of or pertaining to boundaries.
2. Of or pertaining to the end of something; final.

   Synonym: terminālis

   Antonym: inceptīvus

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

• “finalis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "finalis", 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)
• finalis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.