" final "

[Adjective]  | "fi*nal" | \ ˈfī-nᵊl \

1: not to be altered or undone

2: of or relating to a concluding court action or proceeding

3: coming at the end : being the last in a series, process, or progress

Origin: 14th century ;

 Middle English, "pertaining to an end or conclusion, effecting a close, ultimate, conclusive," borrowed from Anglo-French & Latin; Anglo-French, borrowed from Medieval Latin fīnālis "last, at the end, ultimate," going back to Latin, "of boundaries," from fīnis "boundary, limit, terminal point, ending" (of uncertain origin) + -ālis {see: |-al:1|-al:1};

  * Note : According to an older hypothesis, fīnis goes back to *fig-sn-is, a derivative from the base of fīgere "to drive in, insert, fasten" (see: {fix:1|fix:1}), assuming that the word originally referred to some sort of boundary marker fixed to a tree or driven into the ground. A more recent suggestion see:s fīnis going back to *bhiH-n-i, a derivative of an Indo-European verbal base *bhei̯H- "strike, break," see:n also in an o-grade derivative *bhoi̯H-n-o-, whence Germanic *baina- "bone" and "straight" (in Old Norse beinn "straight"); (see: {bone:1|bone:1}); in this case fīnis would have referred originally to an upright branch or stake used to mark boundaries. Both hypotheses are in the end speculative, as the semantic prehistory of fīnis in Latin is unknown.;

[Noun]  | "final" 

1: something that is final: such as

2: a deciding match, game, heat, or trial —usually used in plural

3: the last examination in a course —often used in plural

Origin: 1609 ;

 Derivative of {see: |final:1|final:1};

[Noun]  | "final solution" 

1: the Nazi program for extermination of all Jews in Europe

Origin: 1947 ;

[Noun]  | "final curtain" 

1: the last time a curtain is lowered at the end of a performance

[Noun]  | "final draft" 

1: a final version of something (such as a document) usually after a lot of editing and rewriting

[Noun]  | "final score" 

1: the score at the end of a game or contest

[Noun]  | "boss" | \ ˈbȯs \

1: a person who exercises control or authority; specifically : one who directs or supervises workers

2: someone who controls votes in a party organization or dictates appointments or legislative measures

3: a major antagonist in a game (such as a video game or board game) and usually one that must be overcome in order for a player to progress —often used before another noun

Origin: 1806 ;

 Borrowed from Dutch baas "master, person in authority," earlier, "friend and master, head of a household," going back to Middle Dutch baes, used as a surname, of uncertain origin;

  * Note : Compare late Middle Low German bas "superintendent of dikes," Frisian baas "master," the latter perhaps a loanword from Dutch. A relationship with Old High German basa "father's sister," German Base, name for various female relatives, is very unlikely. — The word boss was borrowed in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries from New York and New Jersey Dutch; as a name for a person in authority in Dutch it is already reported in New England in 1653—see: citations in Oxford English Dictionary, first edition, and M. Mathews, Dictionary of Americanisms (though the alleged use by John Winthrop is most likely a misreading—see: The Journal of John Winthrop 1630-1649 [Cambridge, 1996], p. 161). The adoption of Dutch long as a rounded vowel is paralleled by {dollar|dollar}.;

[Noun]  | "resting place" 

1: a place where people can stop and rest

2: a place where someone is buried

3: a place where something has been put

[Idiom]  | "in the final/last analysis" 

1: after considering everything —used for a final statement or judgment that is based on what is most important in a particular situation

[Idiom]  | "make the final/supreme/ultimate sacrifice" 

1: to die

[Noun]  | "final" 

[Adjective]  | "final"