/ˈfɪnɪs/, /fiːˈniː/
OriginFrom Middle English finis, from Latin fīnis (“end; limit”). Doublet of fin, fine, and finish.
- Of a book or other work: the end.
“He had gone through the work from the title-page to the finis at least forty times, and had just commenced it over again.”
“Highly providential was the appearance on the scene of Corny Kelleher when Stephen was blissfully unconscious that, but for that man in the gap turning up at the eleventh hour, the finis might have be”