extinção

Betekenis (Engels)

1. (feminine) extinguishment (act of putting out a fire)
2. (feminine) extinction; annihilation; eradication; destruction
3. (feminine) abolition (act of abolishing)
4. (feminine) extinction (the disappearance of a species from a region, or as a whole)
5. (feminine) the act of slaking lime to produce slaked lime
6. (feminine) extinction (absorption or scattering of electromagnetic radiation)

Sinonieme

desaparecimento

perdida

atenuação

desaparição

Vertalings

extinction

extinction

extinció

extinción

estinzione

extermination

exterminio

sterminio

uitsterven

extermini

exterminació

spegnimento

desaparición

exterminación

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/is.t͡ʃĩˈsɐ̃w̃/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geleen van Latyn: extinctio

In summary

Learned borrowing from Latin extīnctiōnem, from extīnctus, perfect passive participle of extīnguō (“to extinguish”).