extinguir

Learned borrowing from Latin extinguere.

• Hyphenation: ex‧tin‧guir

extinguir (first-person singular present extingo, first-person singular preterite extingui, past participle extinguido, short past participle extinto)

1. to extinguish, quench

Borrowed from Latin extinguere.

• IPA^(key): /eɡstinˈɡiɾ/
• Rhymes: -iɾ
• Syllabification: ex‧tin‧guir

extinguir (first-person singular present extingo, first-person singular preterite extinguí, past participle extinguido)

1. to extinguish, to put out
2. to carry out (a task, etc.)
3. (reflexive) to go extinct, to die out
   • 2019 February 20, “Confirman la extinción del primer mamífero por culpa del cambio climático”, in El Nuevo Día‎:

     Antes de extinguirse, estos roedores eran los únicos mamíferos nativos de la Gran Barrera de Coral, ecosistema ubicado frente a la costa de Queensland en el noreste de Australia.

     Before going extinct, these rodents were the only mammals native to the Great Barrier Reef, an ecosystem located in front of the Queensland coast in northeast Australia.

• “extinguir”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy , 2024 December 10