fenecer

From Latin fīnīre (“to finish, to terminate”) (with change of conjugation as in other Romance languages), from fīnis (“end, limit, border”), or alternatively through a Vulgar Latin *fīniscere, *fīnēscō, *fīnescēre. Cf. also the Old Portuguese fĩir.

fenecer (first-person singular present feneço, first-person singular preterite feneci, past participle fenecido)

1. to finish, end, conclude

• fenecimento

From Old Spanish fenir (with change of conjugation as in other Romance languages), from Latin fīnīre, present active infinitive of fīniō (“to finish, terminate”), from fīnis (“end, limit, border”), or alternatively through a Vulgar Latin *fīniscō, *fīniscere, *fīnēscō, *fīnescēre. See also the doublet finir.

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /feneˈθeɾ/ [fe.neˈθeɾ]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /feneˈseɾ/ [fe.neˈseɾ]
• Rhymes: -eɾ
• Syllabification: fe‧ne‧cer

fenecer (first-person singular present fenezco, first-person singular preterite fenecí, past participle fenecido)

1. (transitive, rare) to end, finish, conclude
2. (intransitive, archaic) to end, conclude
3. (intransitive, archaic) to die, perish

• fenecimiento m

• “fenecer”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014