ending
nounverbcommon in dialogue
- //ˈɛndɪŋ//
A termination or conclusion.
noun
- 1
A termination or conclusion.
- 2
The last part of something.
The book has a happy ending.
The film has an unexpected ending.
Modern romance, like Greek tragedy, celebrates the mystery of dismemberment, which is life in time. The happy ending is justly scorned as a misrepresentation; for the world, as we know it, as we have seen it, yields but one ending: death, disintegration, dismemberment, and the crucifixion of our heart with the passing of the forms that we have loved.
- 3
The last morpheme of a word, added to some base to make an inflected form (such as -s in "dogs").
Spanish verb forms have different endings depending on the tense, mood and person.
Using diachronic evidence from Swedish, I will show that inflectional endings may be maintained as “less cumulative” inflections, or even degrammaticalize into a derivational suffix or a clitic.
Etymology
From Middle English endynge, endyng, endinge, from Old English endung, ġeendung (“ending”), equivalent to end + -ing. Cognate with Dutch ending (“ending”), German Endung (“ending”).
verb
- 1
Also a form of endpresent participle and gerund of end
Etymology
From Middle English ending, endyng, endende, from Old English endiende, from Proto-Germanic *andijōndz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *andijōną (“to end”), equivalent to end + -ing.
Forms
- plural
- endings