English
extract
Extract comes from Latin extractum, and goes back to trahō ‘to drag’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtrahō‘to drag’next step skipped: Latin extractus
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEextractum
- Englishearliest quotation 1667extract
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtrahō‘to drag’next step skipped: Latin extractus
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEextractum
- Englishearliest quotation 1667extract
Earliest quotation: 1667, John Milton, Book V: “The bee / Sits on the bloom extracting liquid…”
Linked words
through Latin trahō ‘to drag’
treat, contract, attractive, portrait, attraction, abstract, trait, distraction, traction, tractor, distract, tram, retract, trattoria, tractable, 33 more
Today it means
noun Something that is extracted or drawn out.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin trahō / extract