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excerpt - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

English

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.

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.
    • ✤ out of which we have excerpted the following remarkable particulars1

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈɛɡzɜː(p)t/, /ɛɡˈzɜː(p)t/, /ɛkˈsɜː(p)t/, /ˈɛksɜː(p)t/
  • (General American, Canada) IPA: /ˈɛɡzɝ(p)t/, /ɛɡˈzɝ(p)t/, /ɛkˈsɝ(p)t/, /ˈɛksɝ(p)t/
  • (Australian) IPA: /ˈeɡzɜː(p)t/, /eɡˈzɜː(p)t/, /ekˈsɜː(p)t/, /ˈeksɜː(p)t/

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Footnotes

  1. 1655, Thomas Fuller, The History of Waltham Abbey: ↩

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