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🇮🇹Italian Source WordCode: IT

dell'ultimo minuto

Pronunciation / Transliteration: delˈlultimo miˈnuto

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Final-hour/ˈfaɪ.nəl ˈaʊ.ər/
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🇮🇹 Example Sentence in Italian:

"Hanno trovato un accordo nelle trattative dell'ultimo minuto."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Happening or occurring at the very last moment before a deadline, crisis, or conclusion.

    "The negotiators reached a breakthrough during final-hour talks late last night."
As noun
  1. 1

    The concluding period of time immediately preceding an important event, deadline, or death.

    "In the final-hour of the campaign, both candidates made impassioned pleas to undecided voters."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the combination of 'final', originating from Middle English via Old French from Latin finalis (pertaining to an end), and 'hour', from Old French houre, Latin hora, and Greek hōra (time, period). Established in modern English as a compound modifier describing the critical, last-possible moment before an event occurs or expires.

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