extinguir

Borrowed from Latin extinguere, present active infinitive of extinguō.

extinguir (first-person singular present indicative extingo, past participle extinguido)

1. to extinguish, quench

• distinguir
• extinção
• extinto

Borrowed from Latin extinguere, present active infinitive of extinguō.

extinguir (first-person singular present extingo, first-person singular preterite extinguí, past participle extinguido)

1. to extinguish, to put out
2. to carry out (a task, etc.)
3. (reflexive) to go extinct, to die out
   • 2019 February 20, “Confirman la extinción del primer mamífero por culpa del cambio climático”, in El Nuevo Día‎:

     Antes de extinguirse, estos roedores eran los únicos mamíferos nativos de la Gran Barrera de Coral, ecosistema ubicado frente a la costa de Queensland en el noreste de Australia.

     Before going extinct, these rodents were the only mammals native to the Great Barrier Reef, an ecosystem located in front of the Queensland coast in northeast Australia.

• Rule: gu becomes a g before a or o.

• “extinguir” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.