extinción
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin extinctiōnem.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Spain) /eɡstinˈθjon/ [eɣ̞s.t̪ĩn̟ˈθjõn]
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /eɡstinˈsjon/ [eɣ̞s.t̪ĩnˈsjõn]
- Rhymes: -on
- Syllabification: ex‧tin‧ción
Noun
[edit]extinción f (plural extinciones)
- extinction (the action of making or becoming extinct; annihilation)
- 2019 February 20, “Confirman la extinción del primer mamífero por culpa del cambio climático”, in El Nuevo Día[1]:
- El informe apunta que una de las causas de su extinción es la falta de vegetación que este roedor utilizaba como alimento, ya que la isla ha sufrido una reducción de sus dimensiones por las constantes inundaciones.
- The report notes that one of the causes of its extinction is the lack of vegetation that this rodent used as food, since the island has been reduced in size from the constant floods.
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “extinción”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28