extinctus

Latin

Alternative forms

• exstinctus

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of extinguō.

Participle

extīnctus (feminine extīncta, neuter extīnctum); first/second-declension participle

1. quenched, extinguished
2. killed

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	extīnctus	extīncta	extīnctum		extīnctī	extīnctae	extīncta
Genitive	extīnctī	extīnctae	extīnctī		extīnctōrum	extīnctārum	extīnctōrum
Dative	extīnctō		extīnctō		extīnctīs
Accusative	extīnctum	extīnctam	extīnctum		extīnctōs	extīnctās	extīncta
Ablative	extīnctō	extīnctā	extīnctō		extīnctīs
Vocative	extīncte	extīncta	extīnctum		extīnctī	extīnctae	extīncta

Descendants

• Aromanian: astimtu
• → Catalan: extint
• → English: extinct
• French: éteint
• Italian: estinto, stinto
• → Portuguese: extinto
• → Spanish: extinto

References

• “extinctus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• extinctus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• extinctus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.