exstinctio

Latin

Etymology

extinguo +‎ -tio.

Noun

exstīnctiō f (genitive exstīnctiōnis); third declension

1. annihilation, slaughter, extinction

   Synonyms: interitus, perniciēs, pestis, clādēs, exitium

2. 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.