Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗Fine champagne; French brandy. · Something that is fine; fine particles.
To make finer, purer, or cleaner; to purify or clarify. · To become finer, purer, or cleaner. · To make finer, or less coarse, as in bulk, texture, etc. · To change by fine gradations.
Well, nicely, in a positive, agreeable way. · Finely; elegantly; delicately. · In a manner so that the driven ball strikes the object ball so far to one side as to be barely deflected, the object ball being driven to one side.
Expression of (typically) reluctant agreement. · Expression of (typically) reluctant acceptance, without further argument or discussion, of another person's viewpoint.
Of superior quality. · Impressively bad, inappropriate, or unsatisfactory. · Being acceptable, adequate, passable, or satisfactory; having one's well-being be no cause for concern. · Good-looking, attractive.
From Middle English fin, fyn, from Old French fin (“fine, minute, exact”), of obscure origin, but probably derived from Latin fīnīre (“to finish”) or fīnis (“boundary, limit, end”), with an abstract sense of fine or thin also arising in many Romance languages (compare Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish fino). Doublet of fino.
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