Word Origin Summary

Extinctio is attested in Latin. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• extinction

  French · borrowed from

• extinção

  Portuguese · borrowed from

• extinción

  Spanish · borrowed from

• extincție

  Romanian · borrowed from

• estinzione

  Italian · borrowed from

• extinction

  English · derived from

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