English
extinguish
Extinguish comes from Latin extinguo ‘to put out, quench, extinguish, deprive of…’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEextinguo‘to put out, quench, extinguish, deprive of life, destroy, abolish’
- Englishearliest quotation 1561extinguish
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEextinguo‘to put out, quench, extinguish, deprive of life, destroy, abolish’
- Englishearliest quotation 1561extinguish
Earliest quotation: 1561, Richard Eden, Aldermen of the Citie of London: “[T]he fauour of Princes and Magiſtrates noryſheth, augmenteth, and…”
A compound of ex ‘out’ + stinguere ‘to put out, quench, extinguish’
Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰs ‘out’
Proto-Italic *eks
Latin ex ‘out’
Proto-Indo-European *stengʷ- ‘to push, thrust’
Latin stinguō ‘to put out, quench, extinguish’
Linked words
through Latin extinguo ‘to put out, quench, extinguish, deprive of…’
Today it means
verb To stop (fire, etc.) from burning; also, to stop (light, etc.) from shining; to put out, to quench.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin extinguo / extinguish