Definition of "finis"

finis

/ˈfɪnɪs/

noun
1. Of a book or other work: the end.
  Quotations
  He had gone through the work from the title-page to the finis at least forty times, and had just commenced it over again.
  1836, [Frederick Marryat], Mr. Midshipman Easy […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Saunders and Otley, […]
  Highly providential was the appearance on the scene of Corny Kelleher when Stephen was blissfully unconscious but for that man in the gap turning up at the eleventh hour the finis might have been that he might have been a candidate for the accident ward […]
  1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […]