Noun: fine
Sample Sentences
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We had dined at l'Avenue's, and afterward went to the Café de Versailles for coffee. We had several fines after the coffee, and I said I must be going. [1926, Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises, Scribner, published 2003, page 14:]
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‘Darling,’ Lois told her, ‘don't get depressed. Have another fine.’ [1928, Jean Rhys, Quartet, Penguin, published 2000, page 34:]
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He refilled his glass. ‘The fine is very good,’ he said. [1936, Djuna Barnes, Nightwood, Faber & Faber, published 2007, page 18:]
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They filtered silt and fines out of the soil.
Nouns inflected like fine
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English fin, fyn, from Old French fin (“fine, minute, exact”), of obscure origin, but probably derived from Latin fīnīre (“to finish”) or fīnis (“boundary, limit, end”), with an abstract sense of fine or thin also arising in many Romance languages (compare Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish fino). Doublet of fino. See: Latin Nouns '
fīniō'.
Verbs referencing "fine"
English Nouns
finance.