extinction

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From late Middle English, borrowed from Latin extinctio (“extinction, annihilation”), from extinguere, past participle extinctus (“to extinguish”); see extinguish.

58 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: اِنْقِرَاض (inqirāḍ) — the action of making or becoming extinct
• Asturian: estinción — the action of making or becoming extinct
• Belarusian: выміра́нне (vymiránnje) — the action of making or becoming extinct
• Bulgarian: загасване (zagasvane) — the action of making or becoming extinct
• Bulgarian: потушаване (potušavane) — the action of making or becoming extinct
• Catalan: extinció — the action of making or becoming extinct
• Chinese Mandarin: 滅絕 /灭绝 (mièjué) — the action of making or becoming extinct
• Czech: zánik — the action of making or becoming extinct
• Czech: vymření — the action of making or becoming extinct
• Czech: vyhynutí — the action of making or becoming extinct
• Danish: uddøen — the action of making or becoming extinct
• Danish: tilintetgørelse — the action of making or becoming extinct
• Danish: udslettelse — the action of making or becoming extinct
• Dutch: uitsterven — the action of making or becoming extinct
• Esperanto: formorto — the action of making or becoming extinct
• Finnish: sukupuutto — the action of making or becoming extinct
• French: extinction — the action of making or becoming extinct
• Galician: extinción — the action of making or becoming extinct
• Georgian: გადაშენება (gadašeneba) — the action of making or becoming extinct
• Georgian: ამოწყვეტა (amoc̣q̇veṭa) — the action of making or becoming extinct
• Georgian: მოსპობა (mosṗoba) — the action of making or becoming extinct
• Georgian: ამოხოცვა (amoxocva) — the action of making or becoming extinct
• Georgian: ამოწყდომა (amoc̣q̇doma) — the action of making or becoming extinct
• German: Aussterben — the action of making or becoming extinct
• Hebrew: הכחדה (hakkhada) — the action of making or becoming extinct
• Hindi: विलुप्त (vilupt) — the action of making or becoming extinct
• Hungarian: kihalás — the action of making or becoming extinct
• Hungarian: kipusztulás — the action of making or becoming extinct
• Icelandic: útdauði — the action of making or becoming extinct
• Indonesian: kepunahan — the action of making or becoming extinct
• Irish: díothú — the action of making or becoming extinct
• Japanese: 絶滅 (zetsumetsu) — the action of making or becoming extinct
• Kazakh: жойылу (joiylu) — the action of making or becoming extinct
• Kazakh: қырылу (qyrylu) — the action of making or becoming extinct
• Korean: 멸종 (myeoljong) — the action of making or becoming extinct
• Latin: exstinctiō — the action of making or becoming extinct
• Latin: extinctiō — the action of making or becoming extinct
• Latvian: izmiršana — the action of making or becoming extinct
• Macedonian: помор (pomor) — the action of making or becoming extinct
• Malay: kepupusan — the action of making or becoming extinct
• Māori: meto — the action of making or becoming extinct
• Norwegian Nynorsk: utrydding — the action of making or becoming extinct
• Norwegian Nynorsk: utdøying — the action of making or becoming extinct
• Polish: wymieranie — the action of making or becoming extinct
• Polish: wygaszenie — the action of making or becoming extinct
• Polish: wymarcie — the action of making or becoming extinct
• Polish: wytępienie — the action of making or becoming extinct
• Portuguese: extinção — the action of making or becoming extinct
• Russian: вымира́ние (vymiránije) — the action of making or becoming extinct
• Serbo-Croatian: izumiranje — the action of making or becoming extinct
• Spanish: extinción — the action of making or becoming extinct
• Swedish: utrotning — the action of making or becoming extinct
• Tagalog: paglipol — the action of making or becoming extinct
• Tagalog: lipol — the action of making or becoming extinct
• Tagalog: pagkalipol — the action of making or becoming extinct
• Thai: การสูญพันธุ์ (gaan-sǔun-pan) — the action of making or becoming extinct
• Ukrainian: вимира́ння (vymyránnja) — the action of making or becoming extinct
• Yoruba: àkúrun — the action of making or becoming extinct