extinguir
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== Portuguese ==
=== Etymology ===
Learned borrowing from Latin extinguere.
=== Pronunciation ===
Hyphenation: ex‧tin‧guir
=== Verb ===
extinguir (first-person singular present extingo, first-person singular preterite extingui, past participle extinguido, short past participle extinto)
to extinguish, quench
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=== Further reading ===
“extinguir”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
“extinguir”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
== Spanish ==
=== Etymology ===
Borrowed from Latin extinguere.
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /eɡstinˈɡiɾ/ [eɣ̞s.t̪ĩŋˈɡiɾ]
Rhymes: -iɾ
Syllabification: ex‧tin‧guir
=== Verb ===
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
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=== Further reading ===
“extinguir”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025