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Latin
Etymology
From ex- (“out of”) + trahō (“I drag”).
Pronunciation
Verb
extrahō (present infinitive extrahere, perfect active extrāxī, supine extractum); third conjugation
- (transitive) to drag, pull or draw forth or out; extract, remove
- Synonyms: excipiō, ēiciō, exuō, exciō, ēdūcō
- Antonyms: intrōferō, īnserō, īnferō, īnsertō
- (transitive) to extricate, release; draw out, extract, eradicate, rescue
- Synonyms: līberō, excipiō
- (transitive, of time) to draw out, protract, prolong, put off
- Synonyms: prōtrahō, trahō
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References
- “extraho”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “extraho”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- extraho in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) to totally eradicate false principles: errorem stirpitus extrahere
- (ambiguous) to banish devout sentiment from the minds of others: religionem ex animis extrahere (N. D. 1. 43. 121)
- (ambiguous) to pass the whole day in discussion: dicendi mora diem extrahere, eximere, tollere
- (ambiguous) to protract, prolong a war: bellum ducere, trahere, extrahere