“end” in Latin

finis (boundary as a mathematical line; also “end” proposed to be reached): extremum (the last portion; both of both lime and space): terminus (PROP. the stone set up to mark a boundary; hence boundary, of space only): exitus (issue of an action or affair; also end of a word, vocis, verbi): modus (the limit beyond which an action is not to be carried on; e.g., nullus modus caedibus fuit): clausula (conclusion of a sentence, of a letter, etc.): caput (anything resembling a head; e.g., of a rope, funis). The end of life, vitae exitus: vitae finis (but finis alone is unclassical, Ruhnken, Vell., 2, 123, 3). ☞ “End” is often to be translated by extremus: at the end of his speech, in extrema oratione: at the end of the book, in extremo libro (☞ not in calce libri, which has no ancient authority): at the end of the year, extremo anno, extremo anni, or anno exeunte: at the end of January, extremo mense Januario. I do not know what the end is to be, vereor, quorsum id casurum sit; timeo, quorsum hoc evadat. I cannot foresee what the end of it all will be, alicujus rei exitum evolvere non possum: there is not an end of it yet, res nondum finem invenit. I see there will be no end of this, unless I put a stop to it myself, video non futurum finem in ista materia ullum, nisi quem mihi fecero. To BRING TO AN END, To MAKE AN END OF ANYTHING, finem alicui rei afferre: aliquid ad finem adducere or perducere: aliquid absolvere: aliquid transigere (e.g., a business): aliquid profligare (to strike it off, as it were, at a heat): aliquid conficere, perficere, consummare (the last, Liv.): aliquid exsequi, peragere: aliquid expedire (of a complicated business): aliquid componere (by reconciliation; e.g., a strife or dispute): To PUT AN END TO, finire aliquid: alicujus rei, or (less frequently) alicui rei finem facere: alicui rei modum facere: alicui rei finem or modum imponere: alicui rei finem constituere: aliquid dirimere (to put a sudden stop to an action or state by its intervention; e.g., nox proelium diremit). Death puts an end to everything, omnia morte delentur. The Romans sometimes expressed the notion of “putting an end to anything” by compounds with de; to put an end to the war, debellare, decertare. To COME TO AN END, ad finem or ad exitum venire; ad exitum adduci; exire (expire; e.g., indutiarum dies exierat, Liv.): finem habere or capere: desinere (to cease): exstingui (to be extinguished): interire: occidere (die): to come to a remarkable end, notabili exitu concludi: to come to a tragical end, tristes habere exttus: to an ignoble end, foede finire. Hastening to an end, praeceps. To HASTEN TO AN END, festino aliqua re defungi; ad finem propero. To BE PUT AN END TO, terminari (in space): finem or exitum habere (especially in time). The battle was put an end to, finis certaminis fait, postquam etc.: the war was put an end to, debellatum est; almost put an end to, bellum profligatum ac paene sublatum est. There is no end of his industry in anything, non habere finem diligentiae in aliqua re.

Purpose, propositum: consilium: animus: mens; is, qui mihi est or fuit propositus exitus (☞ not scopus in this meaning: Cic., uses σκοπός in his letters): finis (the highest point, whether reached or aimed at; e.g., domus finis est usus, Cic., Off., 1, 39, 138, not = purpose). A good end, bonum consilium (☞ not bonus finis): to this end, hoc consilio or hac mente: to attain one’s end, propositum consequi; eo, quo volo, pervenio; quae volumus, perficere: to this end, ad eam rem (Cic.): id spectans (Cic., ☞ not ad eam finem): to what end? ad quam rem? quid spectans? (Cic., Tusc., 1, 14, 31): to what end is this? quorsum hoc spectat? to propose to one’s self a great end, magna spectare: not to attain one’s end, a proposito aberrare; propositum non consequi.

TRANS., concludere: finire: finem facere alicujus rei or (less commonly) alicui rei: finem or modum alicui rei imponere: finem statuere or constituere alicui rei [SYN. in CONCLUDE.] To be ended, exigi, praeterire, etc. (of time; prope jam exacta sestas erat). To end a speech, finem tacere orationis or dicendi: to end a letter, epistolam concludere: to end one’s life, vitam finire: vitam deponere: mortem sibi consciscere (voluntarily to take away one’s life): interire: e vita discedere: ex vita excedere: mori (to die): to end a controversy, controversiam dirimere (by one’s interposition); controversiam componere (by amicable arrangement). To end the war; [Vid: WAR]; Vid: “put an end to.

INTRANS., finire: terminari (to have an end): finem habere or capere (to receive an end): desinere (to cease): cadere or excidere in etc. (to terminate in a syllable, etc.; of words, etc.): exitum habere, evenire (to have a result). To end in a point, mucrone deficere; in angulos exire (of leaves, Plin.): to end in a long syllable, longa syllaba terminari; cadere or excidere in longam syllabam: to end in an a or an e, exitum habere in a aut in e: to end in o and n, o et n litteris finiri: to end in the same letters, in easdem litteras exire: the genitive of Maecenas ends in tis, nomen Maecenas genitivo casu tis syllaba terminatur. Many persons believed that the end of the world was come, multi asternam illam et novissimam noctem interpretabantur: to behold the end of the world, or of all things, rerum humanarum teiminos videre. I had my fears how it would all end, verebar, quorsum evaderet (Tr.) or quorsum id casurum esset (Cic.): not to know how anything will end, nescire, quorsum evadat (Nep.): to end well, belle cadere; fauste, feliciter, prospere evenire; bene atque feliciter evenire; prospere succedere, procedere (Cic.); prospere cedere (Np); bene cadere (Terentianus): to end ill, secus cadere, evadere, accidere; secus cedere, procedere (Sall.); male cadere, haud bene evenire, haud quaquam prospere procedere (Liv.); minus prospere procedere (Nep.); minus prospere evenire (Liv.). All’s well that ends well, exitus acta probat.