finfine

Esperanto

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin fīnis

Proto-Indo-European *-yétider.

Latin -iō

Latin finiōder.

Italian finirebor.

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Latin finiōder.

French finirbor.

Esperanto fini

Esperanto fine

Esperanto finfine

From fini (“to finish”) + fine (“finally”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /finˈfine/

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• Rhymes: -ine
• Syllabification: fin‧fi‧ne
• Hyphenation: fin‧fine

Adverb

finfine

2. (emphatic) at last, finally (after an exceptionally long time)
   • 2025 November 27, Renée Triolle, “La unua eŭropano, kiu vizitis Tibeton Alexandra David-Néel (1868-1969)”, in uea.facila‎^[1], archived from the original on 23 December 2025:

     Ŝi finfine edziniĝis en 1904 al la ĉefa inĝeniero de la tuniziaj fervojoj, Philippe Néel, kiam ŝi kantis ĉe la operejo de Tunizo.

     She finally got married in 1904 to the chief engineer of the Tunisian railways, Philippe Néel, when she sang at the opera house of Tunis.

Further reading

Monolingual dictionaries

• “finfine”, in Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto [Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto], 2020, →ISBN
• “finfine”, in Reta Vortaro [Online Dictionary] (in Esperanto), 1997-2026

Multilingual dictionaries

• Wells, John C. (1992), “last”, in Concise Esperanto and English Dictionary‎^[2], →ISBN, page 293
• Benson, Peter J. (1995), “run, yet”, in Comprehensive English-Esperanto Dictionary‎^[3], →ISBN, pages 442-444, 591-592
• Butler, Montagu C. (1967), “fin-i”, in Esperanto-English Dictionary‎^[4], →OL, page 129