excerpt

English

Etymology

From Latin excerptus, past participle of excerpere (“to pick out”), from ex (“out”) + carpere (“to pick, pluck”)

Pronunciation

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Noun

excerpt (plural excerpts)

1. a clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work such as a news article, a film, a literary composition or other media

Translations

a clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work

Bulgarian: откъс (bg) m., извадка (bg) f. Czech: výňatek (cs) m. Dutch: fragment, passage (nl) Finnish: poiminto, ote French: extrait (fr) m., passage (fr) m. German: Auszug (de)

Icelandic: brot (is) n., hluti (is) n. Norwegian: utdrag (no) Portuguese: trecho (pt), passagem (pt) Russian: отрывок m., выдержка f. Spanish: extracto (es) m. Swedish: utdrag (sv) n.

Verb

excerpt (third-person singular simple present excerpts, present participle excerpting, simple past and past participle excerpted)

1. To select or copy sample material (excerpts) from a work.

External links

• excerpt in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• excerpt in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911