English
pseudoextinction
From pseudo- + extinction.
Formed from pseudo- + extinction
Proto-Indo-European *stengʷ- ‘to push’
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Proto-Italic *stengʷō ‘to push’
Latin stinguō ‘to put out, extinguish’
Latin extinguō ‘to quench, put out, extinguish’
Latin extinctio ‘extinction, annihilation’
English extinction
Today it means
noun phyletic extinction; the situation where all members of a species are extinct, but members of a daughter species remain alive
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “pseudoextinction”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
Etymograph / pseudoextinction