英语词汇extinct的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	extinct
词源	extinct [LME] The early recorded sense of this was ‘no longer alight’. This is from Latin exstinguere ‘to extinguish’ [M16th]. Extinct is used in connection with species of animals that have died out from the late 17th century.
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