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

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

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.

• excerpt from police record
• excerptive
• excerptor

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

• “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.

Borrowed from Latin excerptus.

• IPA(key): [ɛɡˈsæɐ̯bd]

excerpt n (singular definite excerptet, plural indefinite excerpter)

1. (uncommon) excerpt
   Synonym: uddrag

• “excerpt” in Den Danske Ordbog