exstinguo
Latin
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ekˈstin.ɡʷoː/, [ɛkˈs̠t̪ɪŋɡʷoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ekˈstin.ɡwo/, [ekˈst̪iŋɡwo]
Verb
exstinguō (present infinitive exstinguere, perfect active exstīnxī, supine exstīnctum); third conjugation
- to quench, extinguish, put out
- (figuratively) to destroy, kill, slay, abolish
- 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.682-683:
- “Exstīnxtī tē mēque, soror, populumque patrēsque
Sīdoniōs urbemque tuam. [...]”- “You have destroyed you and me both, sister, and the people, and the Sidonian fathers, and your city.”
(Anna, grief-stricken, speaks in hyperbole to Dido. Syncopation: “exstīnxtī” for “exstīnx[is]tī.” “Populumque patrēsque” echoes the Roman phrase senatus populusque romanus.)
- “You have destroyed you and me both, sister, and the people, and the Sidonian fathers, and your city.”
- “Exstīnxtī tē mēque, soror, populumque patrēsque
Conjugation
Descendants
- Catalan: extingir
- English: extinguish
- Spanish: extinguir
References
- “exstinguo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “exstinguo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- exstinguo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- exstinguo in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be cut off by sudden death: subita morte exstingui
- to be forgotten, pass into oblivion: oblivione obrui, deleri, exstingui
- to excite emotion: motus excitare in animo (opp. sedare, exstinguere)
- to stifle, drown one's hatred: odium restinguere, exstinguere
- to be cut off by sudden death: subita morte exstingui
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