extinct

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

De soort werd oorspronkelijk als al uitgestorven beschouwd op het moment van de ontdekking.

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

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Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/ɪkˈstɪŋ(k)t/

Overgenomen van Middelengels

extinct

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.