extraction
/ekˈstɹækʃən/ek-STRAK-shuhn
/ɛkˈstɹækʃən/ek-STRAK-shuhn
Meaningthe act of extracting
Common meaning: pulling out
Other meanings: family origin
- exout
- tractto pull, dragLewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), p. 1885 · scan
- ionnoun ending: act or result
‘out’ + ‘to pull, drag’ → extraction
Journey through time
- Latinextractus‘drawn out’source
- Englishextract‘to take or pull out’
- Englishformed in English from extractextraction‘pulling out’ · today
Sources & notes
Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.
Pronunciation
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- US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
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Origin: Formed in English from extract + -ion.
Dictionary: Skeat (1898), EXTRACT, p.201 · scan
Roots
- trahō, trāxī, tractum Latin “to pull, drag”
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