English
extortable
From extort + -able.
Formed from extort + -able
Proto-Indo-European *terkʷ- ‘to turn, spin’
…
Latin torqueō ‘twist, turn’
Latin ex ‘out’
Latin extorquere ‘to twist or wrench out, to extort’
Latin extortus ‘extorted’
English extort
Today it means
adj That can be extorted.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / extortable