English
excerption
Excerption comes from Latin excerptio.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEexcerptio
- Englishearliest quotation 1655excerption
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEexcerptio
- Englishearliest quotation 1655excerption
Earliest quotation: 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […]: “his excerptions out of Fathers”.
Every English word from Latin excerptio
Today it means
noun The act of excerpting or selecting.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin excerptio / excerption