finito
/fɪnˈiː.təʊ/adjective
finito is an adjective meaning “Finished; over with; done” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-I-N-I-T-O and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 19 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does finito mean?
adjective
- 1
colloquialFinished; over with; done.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce finito?
- UK /fɪnˈiː.təʊ/
Finito has 3 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-finito.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
How common is finito?
Finito appears about once in every 19 million words in written English, the 130,282nd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does finito come from?
From Italian finito (“finished”), from Latin fīnītus. Doublet of finite.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).