Adjective: fino
Hyphenation:
| Singular m. | fino |
| Singular f. | fina |
| Plural m. | finos |
| Plural f. | finas |
Sample Sentences
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Et el rrey et os omes onrrados comjã en escudelas et en talladores d'ouro fino (The king and the noblemen were eating on trays and trenchers of fine gold) [c. 1300, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F, page 576:]
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so penna de trynta marquos de prata finos (under the penalty of thirty fine silver marks) [1372, C. Rodríguez Núñez (ed.), "Santa María de Belvís, un convento mendicante femenino en la Baja Edad Media (1305-1400)", Estudios Mindonienses, 5, page 448]
Adjectives inflected like fino
preguiceiro,
metafórico,
perdulário,
metafísico,
anxélico,
serbio,
sañudo,
severo,
seguro,
sedoso,
sabido,
atmosférico,
estremeiro,
romántico,
metódico,
satisfeito,
sonoro,
sollío,
sobexo,
sisudo, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
Regularized from Old Galician-Portuguese fin, fina (“fine”), from Latin finis (“end”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰnh₂-. Doublet of fin (“the end”).
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