 In Greek, ‘to apeiron’ means ‘the infinite’: ‘a’ denotes privation and ‘peras’ the notion of ‘limit’ or ‘bound’. Etymologically, the English word ‘infinite’ comes from the Latin word ‘infinitas’: ‘in’ = ‘not’ and ‘finis’ = ‘end’, ‘boundary’, ‘limit’, ‘termination’, or ‘determining factor’. In contemporary English, there is a range of uses of the word ‘infinite’: