ending

Meanings

Noun

• A termination or conclusion.
• The last part of something.
• The last morpheme of a word, added to some base to make an inflected form (such as -s in "dogs").

Verb

• Present participle of end

Related

Similar words

• (termination or conclusion): conclusion, end, termination
• (last part of something): end, finale
• (grammar): termination, suffix

Origin

• From Middle English endyng, endinge, endunge, from Old English endung, ġeendung, equivalent to end + -ing. Cognate with Dutch ending, German Endung.
• From Middle English ending, endyng, endende, from Old English endiende, from Proto-Germanic *andijōndz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *andijōną, equivalent to end + -ing.