English
extortive
From extort + -ive.
Formed from extort + -ive
Proto-Indo-European *terkʷ- ‘to turn, spin’
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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 Involving, constituting or accomplished by extortion.
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Etymograph / extortive