exstinguo
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) 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
- I quench, extinguish, put out
- I kill, destroy
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.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], 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