extinct

Phrases
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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.

Signification (Anglais)

Opposé de
alight, burning, inextinct, unextinct, inactive, nondriven, quiet, restful, sleeping, extant, living, nonextinct, inexistent, active, dormant
Fréquence

C2
Prononcé comme (IPA)
/ɪkˈstɪŋ(k)t/
Étymologie (Anglais)

In summary

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.

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