English
extraction
Extraction comes from Medieval Latin extractio ‘extraction, rescue’, from Latin extrahō ‘to drag, pull or draw forth or out’, and ultimately from trahō.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtrahō‘to drag’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEextrahō‘to drag, pull or draw forth or out’
- Medieval Latinc. 600–1500extractio‘extraction, rescue’
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400estraction
- Englishearliest quotation 1644extraction
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtrahō‘to drag’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEextrahō‘to drag, pull or draw forth or out’
- Medieval Latinc. 600–1500extractio‘extraction, rescue’
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400estraction
- Englishearliest quotation 1644extraction
Earliest quotation: 1644, John Milton, London: [s.n.]: “They [books] do preserve as in a vial the…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ- ‘to run, to drag, to pull’
draw, train, draft, drag, retreat, draught, distraction, contraction, abstraction, retract, entreat, subtraction, abstractly, 48 more
through Latin trahō ‘to drag’
treat, contract, portrait, attractive, abstract, trait, attraction, tractor, distract, tram, tract, trattoria, 36 more
Today it means
noun The act of extracting or the condition of being extracted.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin trahō / extraction