finishの意味・使い方・発音

finish

英 ['fɪnɪʃ] 美 ['fɪnɪʃ]

フィニッシュ

ラテン語のfinis「終わり」「境界」、さらにラテン語のfigere「固定する」「印をつける」が語源で、語源的にはfixと同じ。

finish: finish: [14] The Latin verb *fīnīre, a derivative of fīnis ‘end, limit’, signified ‘limit’ as well as ‘complete’, but it is the latter which has come down to English via feniss-, the stem of Old French fenir. The Latin past participle, fīnītus, gave English finite [15].
=> final, finance, fine, finite
finish (v.): late 14c., "to bring to an end;" mid-15c., "to come to an end" (intransitive), from Old French finiss-, present participle stem of fenir "stop, finish, come to an end; die" (13c.), from Latin finire "to limit, set bounds; put an end to; come to an end," from finis "that which divides, a boundary, border," figuratively "a limit, an end, close, conclusion; an extremity, highest point; greatest degree," which is of unknown origin, perhaps related to figere "to fasten, fix" (see fix (v.)). Meaning "to kill, terminate the existence of" is from 1755.
finish (n.): 1779, "that which finishes or gives completion," from finish (v.). Meaning "the end" is from 1790. Finish line attested from 1873.

1. Elliott crossed the finish line just half a second behind his adversary.エリオットはゴールラインを越えた時、相手より半秒遅れただけだった。

2.They meant to finish her off,swiftly and without mercy.: 彼らは容赦なく迅速に彼女を結果に変えようとした。

4.We felt we might finish third.Any better would be a bonus.: 私たちは3位になるかもしれないと感じていますが、もしこの順位より良いことができたら、意外な驚きです。