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Where does “exstinguere” come from?

exstinguere (Latin) comes from Latin exstinguo, from Latin stinguo, from Proto-Italic *stengʷō.

exstinguere (Latin): second-person singular future passive indicative...

Definitions

  1. second-person singular future passive indicative...

Ancestry of “exstinguere”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1LatinexstinguoI quench, extinguish, put out; I kill, destroy
2LatinstinguoI put out, extinguish
3Proto-Italic*stengʷō—

Words derived from “exstinguere”

  • extingir
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