excerpt

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɛɡzɜː(p)t/, /ɛɡˈzɜː(p)t/, /ɛkˈsɜː(p)t/, /ˈɛksɜː(p)t/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈɛɡzɝ(p)t/, /ɛɡˈzɝ(p)t/, /ɛkˈsɝ(p)t/, /ˈɛksɝ(p)t/

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈeɡzɜː(p)t/, /eɡˈzɜː(p)t/, /ekˈsɜː(p)t/, /ˈeksɜː(p)t/

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.

Derived terms

• excerpt from police record
• excerptive
• excerptor

Translations

a clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work — see also extract,‎ fragment

Arabic: نبذة – مقتطفات من Bulgarian: откъс (bg) m (otkǎs), извадка (bg) f (izvadka) Catalan: extracte m Chinese: Mandarin: 摘录 (zh) (zhāilù), 節錄 / 节录 (zh) (jiélù) Czech: výňatek m Danish: uddrag (da) n, excerpt n Dutch: fragment (nl), passage (nl) Finnish: poiminto, ote (fi), katkelma (fi) French: extrait (fr) m, passage (fr) m Georgian: ამონარიდი (amonaridi) 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 (ja) (shōroku) Latin: excerptum n Maori: wāhanga Marathi: उतारा m (utārā) 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: excerpta f (rare), excerta (es) f (rare) 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

Chinese: Mandarin: 摘录 (zh) (zhāilù) 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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “excerpt”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

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