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Portuguese
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin extīnctiōnem, from extīnctus, perfect passive participle of extīnguō (“to extinguish”).
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɐ̃w̃
- Hyphenation: ex‧tin‧ção
Noun
extinção f (plural extinções)
- extinguishment (act of putting out a fire)
- Synonym: apagamento
Extinção de incêndios florestais.- Extinguishment of wildfires.
- extinction; annihilation; eradication; destruction
- Synonyms: aniquilação, desaparecimento, destruição, erradicação, fim
Extinção do Império Romano.- Destruction of the Roman Empire.
- abolition (act of abolishing)
- Synonyms: abolição, revogamento, supressão
Extinção da escravidão.- Abolition of slavery.
- (ecology) extinction (the disappearance of a species from a region, or as a whole)
- Synonym: desaparecimento
Extinção dos dinossauros.- Extinction of the dinosaurs.
- the act of slaking lime to produce slaked lime
- Synonym: queima
A extinção da cal é feita com a adição de água à mesma.- The slaking of lime is done by adding water to it.
- (astronomy) extinction (absorption or scattering of electromagnetic radiation)
Graças à extinção, podemos olhar diretamente ao sol quando ele está no horizonte.- Thanks to extinction, we can look directly at the sun when it’s in the horizon.
Derived terms
Further reading
- “extinção” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913