Endeth

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. Archaic form meaning brings or comes to a close, used with a third-person singular subject in older English texts
2. An old-fashioned verb form signifying that something reaches its final point or concludes
3. Used in archaic English to indicate that an action, event, or period comes to its conclusion

Etymology: "Endeth" is the archaic third-person singular form of "end," so it is the same verb with the old "-eth" ending that English used for "he, she, or it" in the present tense, as in "he endeth" where modern English says "he ends." The "-eth" ending belonged to older English, and it survives mainly in the King James Bible and in liturgical or formal phrasing. The verb "end" itself reaches back to Old English "ende," meaning the limit or final point of something. That noun goes back to a very old Germanic root, and it is related to words in nearly every Germanic language, including German "Ende," Dutch "einde," and Swedish "ände." Its ancestry runs back further to a reconstructed Indo-European root connected with the idea of "face" or "front," so the notion of an end was once tied to the front or forward part of something. Only the verb sense and the archaic ending matter for this form.

Synonyms: finish, conclude, terminate, cease, close

Antonyms: begin, start, commence, open