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.

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
• 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
• 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: 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

• 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.
• “excerpt”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →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