exstinctio

Latin

Etymology

extinguo +‎ -tio.

Noun

exstīnctiō f (genitive exstīnctiōnis); third declension

annihilation, slaughter, extinction
Synonyms: interitus, perniciēs, pestis, clādēs, exitium
dissolution

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	exstīnctiō	exstīnctiōnēs
Genitive	exstīnctiōnis	exstīnctiōnum
Dative	exstīnctiōnī	exstīnctiōnibus
Accusative	exstīnctiōnem	exstīnctiōnēs
Ablative	exstīnctiōne	exstīnctiōnibus
Vocative	exstīnctiō	exstīnctiōnēs

Descendants

Catalan: extinció
English: extinction
French: extinction
Italian: estinzione
Portuguese: extinção
Romanian: extincție
Russian: экстинкция (ekstinkcija)
Spanish: extinción

References

“exstinctio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“exstinctio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
exstinctio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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