extinguir
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin extinguere.
Pronunciation edit
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /is.t͡ʃĩˈɡi(ʁ)/ [is.t͡ʃĩˈɡi(h)], /es.t͡ʃĩˈɡi(ʁ)/ [es.t͡ʃĩˈɡi(h)], /is.t͡ʃĩˈɡwi(ʁ)/ [is.t͡ʃĩˈɡwi(h)], /es.t͡ʃĩˈɡwi(ʁ)/ [es.t͡ʃĩˈɡwi(h)]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /is.t͡ʃĩˈɡi(ɾ)/, /es.t͡ʃĩˈɡi(ɾ)/, /is.t͡ʃĩˈɡwi(ɾ)/, /es.t͡ʃĩˈɡwi(ɾ)/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /iʃ.t͡ʃĩˈɡi(ʁ)/ [iʃ.t͡ʃĩˈɡi(χ)], /eʃ.t͡ʃĩˈɡi(ʁ)/ [eʃ.t͡ʃĩˈɡi(χ)], /iʃ.t͡ʃĩˈɡwi(ʁ)/ [iʃ.t͡ʃĩˈɡwi(χ)], /eʃ.t͡ʃĩˈɡwi(ʁ)/ [eʃ.t͡ʃĩˈɡwi(χ)]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /es.t͡ʃĩˈɡi(ɻ)/, /es.t͡ʃĩˈɡwi(ɻ)/
- Hyphenation: ex‧tin‧guir
Verb edit
extinguir (first-person singular present extingo, first-person singular preterite extingui, past participle extinguido, short past participle extinto)
- to extinguish, quench
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of extinguir (irregular short past participle; g-gu alternation) (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
Related terms edit
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin extinguere.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
extinguir (first-person singular present extingo, first-person singular preterite extinguí, past participle extinguido)
- to extinguish, to put out
- to carry out (a task, etc.)
- (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[1]:
- 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.
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of extinguir (g-gu alternation) (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Selected combined forms of extinguir (g-gu alternation)
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
Related terms edit
- distinguir (“to distinguish”)
- extinción (“extinction”)
- extinto (“extinct”)
Further reading edit
- “extinguir”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014