extinct

Signification (Anglais)

Adj

1. Of fire, etc.: no longer alight; of a light, etc.: no longer shining; extinguished, quenched.
2. Of feelings, a person's spirit, a state of affairs, etc.: put out, as if like a fire; quenched, suppressed.
3. Of customs, ideas, laws and legal rights, offices, organizations, etc.: no longer existing or in use; defunct, discontinued, obsolete; specifically, of a title of nobility: no longer having any person qualified to hold it.
4. Of an animal or plant species, a class of people, a family, etc.: having died out completely; no longer in existence.
5. Of a geological feature: no longer active; specifically, of a volcano: no longer erupting.
6. Of a radioisotope: no longer occurring primordially due to having decayed away completely, because it has a relatively short half-life.
7. (obsolete) Of a person: dead; also, permanently separated from others.

Verb

1. (obsolete) Synonym of extinguish
2. (obsolete) Synonym of extinguish
3. (obsolete) Synonym of extinguish
4. (obsolete) Synonym of extinguish
5. (obsolete) Synonym of extinguish
6. (obsolete) Synonym of extinguish

Noun

Synonym of extinction (“the action of becoming or making extinct; annihilation”)

Concepts

éteint

éteinte

de manière abandonnée

disparu

disparaître

extirper

inactif

Coupé comme

ex‧tinct

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ɪkˈstɪŋ(k)t/

Étymologie (Anglais)

PIE word
*h₁eǵʰs
From Late Middle English extinct (“eliminated, eradicated, extinguished”), from Latin extīnctus, exstīnctus (“extinguished, quenched; destroyed, killed; made extinct”), the perfect passive participles of extinguō, exstinguō (“to extinguish, put out, quench; (figurative) to abolish; to destroy, kill”), from ex- (prefix meaning ‘away; out’) + stinguō (“to extinguish, put out, quench”) (from Proto-Indo-European *stengʷ- (“to push”)). The Middle English word displaced Middle English aqueint, aquenched (“extinct; extinguished”). Doublet of extinguish.

Phrases

The species was originally considered already extinct at the time of its discovery .

L'espèce était à l'origine considérée comme déjà éteinte au moment de sa découverte.