excerpt

excerpt

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛɡzɜ(ɹ)(p)t/, /ɛɡˈzɜ(ɹ)(p)t/, /ɛkˈsɜ(ɹ)(p)t/, /ˈɛksɜ(ɹ)(p)t/

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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, or a literary composition.

Translations

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

Arabic: نبذة – مقتطفات من‎ Bulgarian: откъс (bg) m (otkǎs), извадка (bg) f (izvadka) Catalan: extracte m Czech: výňatek m Danish: uddrag n, excerpt n Dutch: fragment (nl), passage (nl) Finnish: poiminto, ote (fi), katkelma (fi) French: extrait (fr) m, passage (fr) m German: Auszug (de) m, Exzerpt (de) n Greek: απόσπασμα (el) n (apóspasma) Hebrew: קֶטַע‎ (he) m (qéta'), מוּבָאָה‎ f (muva'a) Hungarian: kivonat (hu), szemelvény (hu) Icelandic: brot (is) n, hluti (is) n Indonesian: cuplikan (id) Italian: estratto (it) m Japanese: 抜粋 (ja) (bassui), 抄録 (shōroku) Latin: excerptum n Maori: wāhanga Norwegian: utdrag (no) Polish: fragment (pl) m, urywek (pl) m Portuguese: trecho (pt) m, passagem (pt) f, excerto (pt) m Russian: отры́вок (ru) m (otrývok), вы́держка (ru) f (výderžka) Slovene: odlomek m, izvleček (sl) m, izsek m Spanish: extracto (es) m, excerpta f, excerta (es) f, fragmento (es) m Swedish: utdrag (sv) n

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To select or copy sample material (excerpts) from a work.
   • 1655, Thomas Fuller, The History of Waltham Abbey

     out of which we have excerpted the following remarkable particulars

Translations

to select or copy sample material (excerpts) from a work

Finnish: lainata (fi), kopioida (fi) French: extraire (fr) German: exzerpieren (de) Indonesian: mencuplik (id) Italian: estrarre (it) Russian: де́лать (ru) (délatʹ) выдержки (ru) (vyderžki), подбира́ть (ru) (podbirátʹ) цитаты (ru) (citaty)

Further reading

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

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Danish

Noun

excerpt n (singular definite excerptet, plural indefinite excerpter)

1. excerpt

   Synonym: uddrag

Declension

Declension of excerpt

neuter gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	excerpt	excerptet	excerpter	excerpterne
genitive	excerpts	excerptets	excerpters	excerpternes

Further reading

• “excerpt” in Den Danske Ordbog