extinct

Senso (Inglese)

Opposto di
active, alight, burning, dormant, extant, inactive, inexistent, inextinct, living, nondriven, nonextinct, quiet, restful, sleeping, unextinct
Frequenza

C2
Pronunciato come (IPA)
/ɪkˈstɪŋ(k)t/
Etimologia (Inglese)

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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