spegnere

Signification (Anglais)

  1. (traditional, transitive) to turn off (a light, motor, television, etc.)
  2. (traditional, transitive) to extinguish, to put out (a fire, candle, etc.)
  3. (figuratively, traditional, transitive) to extinguish (a controversy, debt, one's anger, etc.)
  4. (traditional, transitive) to quench (thirst)

Opposé de
accendere
Fréquence

B2
Coupé comme
spé‧gne‧re
Prononcé comme (IPA)
/ˈspeɲ.ɲe.re/
Étymologie (Anglais)

Inherited from Latin expingere, from ex- (“out”) + pingo (“paint”), with a semantic change from 'remove colour/color' to 'fade, dim', probably influenced by extingere.

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