fin

• enPR: fĭn, IPA^(key): /fɪn/

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• Homophone: Finn
• Rhymes: -ɪn

From Middle English fin, from Old English finn, from Proto-Germanic *finnō, *finǭ (“dorsal fin”) (compare Dutch vin, German Finne, Swedish finne, fena), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pīn- (“backbone, dorsal fin”) (compare Old Irish ind (“end, point”), Latin pinna (“feather, wing”), Tocharian A spin (“hook”), Sanskrit स्फ्य (sphyá, “splinter, staff”).

fin (plural fins)

1. (ichthyology) One of the appendages of a fish, used to propel itself and to manoeuvre/maneuver.
   • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 4, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

     Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.

   The fish's fins minimize water flow.

2. A similar appendage of a cetacean or other marine animal.

   a dolphin's fin

3. A thin, rigid component of an aircraft, extending from the fuselage and used to stabilise and steer the aircraft.

   The fin stabilises the plane in flight.

4. A similar structure on the tail of a bomb, used to help keep it on course.
5. A hairstyle, resembling the fin of a fish, in which the hair is combed and set into a vertical ridge along the top of the head from about the crown to the forehead.
6. A device worn by divers and swimmers on their feet.

   The divers wore fins to swim faster.

7. An extending part on a surface of a radiator, engine, heatsink, etc., used to facilitate cooling.
8. A sharp raised edge (generally in concrete) capable of damaging a roof membrane or vapor retarder.

• (appendange of a fish):
• (appendage of a cetacean or other marine animal): flipper (of mammals)
• (aircraft component):
• (of a bomb): vane
• (hairstyle): Mohican
• (device worn by divers): flipper

fin (third-person singular simple present fins, present participle finning, simple past and past participle finned)

1. (transitive) To cut the fins from a fish, shark, etc.
2. (intransitive) To swim in the manner of a fish.

   A neutrally buoyant diver does not need to fin to maintain depth.

3. (transitive) To provide (a motor vehicle etc) with fins.

• Fin in the 1921 edition of Collier's Encyclopedia.

From Yiddish פֿינף‎ (finf, “five”).

fin (plural fins)

1. (US, slang) a five-dollar bill

   Synonyms: fiver, Lincoln

• INF, NFI, if'n, inf.

From Latin finis.

fin m or f (plural fins)

1. end (extreme part)
2. end (final part, in time)

fin

1. black

• finman

Ultimately, from Old Norse finnr (“Finn, Sami”).

fin

1. Finnish

• Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎, Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN

• fien

From Latin faenum. Compare Italian fieno, Romanian fân, Friulian fen, Romansch fain, French foin, Portuguese feno, Spanish heno. Alternative form also possibly through a Venetian intermediate as a loan word.

fin m

1. hay

From late Old Norse fínn.

• IPA^(key): /fin/, [ˈfiˀn]
• Rhymes: -in

fin

1. fine
2. choice, classy
3. delicate
4. fashionable
5. grand, posh, genteel

From Chinese 分 (fēn), compare Western Yugur fïn.

• IPA^(key): /fən/

fin

1. minute

   Bu la hirti serki wai, jirghuun ceg ghucin findi posqi we.

   I'll probably wake up early and get up at six thirty [six o'clock and thirty minutes].

From Middle French fin, from Old French fin, from Latin finis.

• IPA^(key): /fɛ̃/

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• Homophone: faim
• Rhymes: -ɛ̃

fin f (plural fins)

1. end, close, finish
2. end, end goal, objective, purpose

• en fin de compte
• prendre fin
• fin de semaine

• finir
• final

fin (feminine singular fine, masculine plural fins, feminine plural fines)

1. thin, fine
2. (Quebec) kind, nice

• fin comme du gros sel
• finasser
• finaud
• finement
• finesse

• “fin” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

From Latin fīnis.

fin m (plural fins)

1. end

fin

1. fine, thin

• finâl
• finî

From Old Portuguese [Term?], from Latin fīnis.

fin m or f (plural fines)

1. end

• á fin
• ao fin
• fin de semana
• por fin

• final

fin

1. Romanization of 𐍆𐌹𐌽

From Latin fīnis.

fin m (plural fins)

1. aim, end, goal

From Old Spanish [Term?], semi-learned term from Latin fīnis.

fin f (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling פין‎)

1. end

From Old French fin, from Latin finis.

fin f (plural fins)

1. end; finish
2. (figuratively) death

• French: fin

From Old French fin, from Latin finis.

fin m

1. (Guernsey) fine

From late Old Norse finn, from Latin finis

fin (neuter singular fint, definite singular and plural fine, comparative finere, indefinite superlative finest, definite superlative fineste)

1. fine

• finjustere

• “fin” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse finn, from Latin finis.

• IPA^(key): /fiːn/

fin (masculine and feminine fin, neuter fint, definite singular and plural fine, comparative finare, indefinite superlative finast, definite superlative finaste)

1. fine

   Dette er ein fin vin.

   This is a fine wine.

2. pretty, handsome

   Kjærasten min er ei veldig fin jente.

   My girlfriend is a very pretty girl.

3. posh

   Ei fin frue klaga på maten.

   A posh lady complained about the food.

4. good

   Det er ei fin årstid å vitja Noreg på.

   It is a good season to visit Norway.

• “fin” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Old Occitan fin, from Latin finis.

fin m (feminine singular fina, masculine plural fins, feminine plural finas)

1. fine (particularly slender)

• finament

• Joan de Cantalausa (2006) Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians, 2 edition, →ISBN, page 484.

From Latin finis.

fin m (oblique and nominative feminine singular fine)

1. fine, delicate
   • circa 1250, Rutebeuf, C’est la complainte d’outremer:

     Serveiz Deu de fin cuer entier

     Serve God with a whole, fine heart

• → Middle English: fin, fyn
  • English: fine
• Middle French: fin
  • French: fin
• Norman: fin

From Latin finis.

fin f (oblique plural fins, nominative singular fin, nominative plural fins)

1. end (final part)

• Catalan: fi
• Occitan: fin

• IPA^(key): /fin/

Borrowed from French fin, from Latin finis.

fin m or n (feminine singular fină, masculine plural fini, feminine and neuter plural fine)

1. fine, delicate
2. subtle

From Vulgar Latin root *fīliānus, from Latin fīlius. Compare also Albanian fijan, Italian figliano.

fin m (plural fini, feminine equivalent fină)

1. godson

• fină
• fiu

• naș

fin

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Puter, Vallader) until, till
2. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Puter, Vallader) by

• (Sursilvan) tochen
• (Sutsilvan) antocen, antoca, toca
• (Rumantsch Grischun) enfin
• (Surmiran) anfignen
• (Puter, Vallader) infin
• (by):
  • (Sursilvan) entochen

fin

1. (Rumantsch Grischun) until

• (Sursilvan) tochen che, entochen che
• (Sutsilvan) antoca, antocen, toca
• (Surmiran) anfignen tgi
• (Puter, Vallader) fin cha

fin

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Puter, Vallader) as far as

• (Sursilvan) tochen, entochen
• (Sutsilvan) antocen, antoca, toca
• (Surmiran) anfignen
• (Puter, Vallader) infin

From Latin fīnis.

fin m (feminine singular fina, masculine plural fins, feminine plural finas)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Puter, Vallader) fine

• (Sutsilvan, Surmiran) fegn

From Latin fīnis.

fin f (plural fins)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Puter, Vallader) end

• (Sutsilvan, Surmiran) fegn

From German fein and Italian fino, from Latin.

• IPA^(key): /fîːn/

fȋn (definite fȋnī, comparative finiji, Cyrillic spelling фи̑н)

1. fine, delicate
2. thin
3. sensitive
4. refined
5. first-class, high-class
6. tasty, delicious

• finoća

• “fin” in Hrvatski jezični portal

From Old Spanish fin, a semi-learned descendant of Latin fīnis[1].

• IPA^(key): /fin/, [fĩn]

fin m (plural fines)

1. (sometimes feminine) end

   el fin de semana ― the weekend

2. purpose

• al fin
• fin de semana
• fino
• por fin

• final
• sinfín

• “fin” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Since at least the 16th century, from French fin.

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• Rhymes: -iːn

fin (comparative finare, superlative finast)

1. fine, elegant
2. good, excellent
3. thin
4. subtle

fin (plural fins)

1. end