köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese acabar, from Vulgar Latin *accapāre. Compare Spanish acabar, French achever and English achieve. By surface analysis, a- + cabo + -ar.
O filme acabou.
Acabe suas tarefas antes de sair.
No fim, acabamos comendo naquele restaurante maltrapilho.
köken: Compound of し (shi, “doing”, the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb する suru “to do”) + 上げる (ageru, “to raise up; to bring to an end”). Derived via regular historical processes from older 仕上ぐ (shiagu), a 下二段活用 (shimo nidan katsuyō, “lower bigrade conjugation”) verb. Compare the English expression to do something up → to do something thoroughly. The 仕 kanji for the first character…
köken: First attested in the Worin seokbo (月印釋譜 / 월인석보), 1459, as Middle Korean 귿내다 (Yale: kutnayta). Causative form of 끝나다 (kkeunnada, “to be finished”).
limit, border, bound boundary, frontier · boundaries, bounds, frontiers; by extension, territory, region, lands · limit in duration, term (duration of a set length)
köken: Disputed. Perhaps for Latin *fignis, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeygʷ- (“to stick, set up”), whence fīgō, or for Latin *fidnis, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- (“to split”), whence findō. Other hypotheses include: * From Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyH- (“to strike”); compare perfinēs (“(you would) break, shatter”). * From the same source as Proto-Germanic *bainaz (“straight; ready”) and *bainą…