extinção

Signification (Anglais)

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)

Concepts

extinction

effaçage

effacement

désactivation

exctinction

extermination

éteignant

Synonymes

desaparecimento

perdida

atenuação

desaparição

Traductions

extinction

extinción

extinció

estinzione

extermination

desaparición

exterminación

extermini

spegnimento

exterminació

uitsterven

sterminio

exterminio

εξαφάνιση

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/is.t͡ʃĩˈsɐ̃w̃/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Emprunté à latin: extinctio

In summary

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