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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/
Noun
excerpt (plural excerpts)
- A clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work such as a news article, a film, or a literary composition.
Translations
Verb
excerpt (third-person singular simple present excerpts, present participle excerpting, simple past and past participle excerpted)
- (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
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)
- excerpt
- Synonym: uddrag
Declension
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