extinguo, extinguis, extinguere C, extinxi, extinctum Verb

Translations

  1. to quench
  2. to extinguish
  3. to kill
  4. to destroy

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Consonant Conjugation (3)

Tenses

Person Singular Plural
1.
2.
3.
Future subjunctive forms do not exist. The subjunctive only exists in the four other tenses.

Infinitives

Active Passive
Simult. (Present) extinguereextingui
Anter. (Perfect) extinxisseextinctum esse
Post. (Future) extincturum esseextinctum iri

Participles

Sg. Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nom.
Gen.
Dat.
Acc.
Voc.
Abl.
Pl. Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nom.
Gen.
Dat.
Acc.
Voc.
Abl.

Gerund

Gerund forms only exist in singular.

Sg. Gerund
Nom. extinguere
Gen. extinguendi
Dat. extinguendo
Acc. extinguendum
Voc. extinguere
Abl. extinguendo

Gerundive

Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nom.
Gen.
Dat.
Acc.
Voc.
Abl.

Imperatives & Supina

Singular Plural
Imperative extingue!extinguite!
Supinum
Type I extinctum
Type II extinctū

Example Sentences

Marcus Tullius Cicero

praeter id, quod honestum sit, expetendum esse dixeris in bonisque numeraveris, et honestum ipsum quasi virtutis lumen extinxeris et virtutem penitus everteris.

~ Cicero, De Finibus III
Publius Ovidius Naso

persequar extinctum letique miserrima dicar causa comesque tui: quique a me morte revelli heu sola poteras, poteris nec morte re

~ Ovid, Metamorphoses IV
L. Annaeus Seneca

Vt appareret nec extinctum ignem mari superfuso, nec impetum eius grauitate ingentis undae prohibitum exire ; ducentorum passuum fuiss

~ Seneca, Quaestiones Naturales II
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Evanuisse mavultis et extinctum esse id quod, si umquam fuisset, certe aeternum esset, quam ea, quae non sunt credenda, non credere.

~ Cicero, De Divinatione Liber Alter

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