extinction
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From late Middle English, borrowed from Latin extinctio (“extinction, annihilation”), from extinguere, past participle extinctus (“to extinguish”); see extinguish.
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extinction (countable and uncountable, plural extinctions)
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Borrowed from Latin extinctiōnem.
extinction f (plural extinctions)
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