English → Latin
“extract” in Latin
extrahōto drag, pull or draw forth or out; extract, remove; to extricate, release; draw out, extract, eradicate, rescue; to draexprimōto squeeze out; to press (out); to express; to imitate or copyvellōto pluck out (feathers, etc.); to depilate; to pull or tear down; to demolishēvellōto tear, pull or pluck out; to erase or eradicatetrahōto drag, pull; to trail; to extract, withdraw, derive, take awaysēcernōto put apart, sunder, sever, separate, divide; to disjoin, part, dissociate, separate; to distinguish, discernēliciōto draw or pull out or forth; to entice, elicit, coax; to conjure, summon (a spirit, god, etc.)excerpōto choose, select (pick out)exscrībōto write out or off, copy; to write or note down; to take after, resembleēligōto choose, to pluck or root out, extract; to pick out, choose, elect
The English word extract itself goes back to Latin trahō, through extractum.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
extract
Draw forth, extrahere (PROP., e.g., telum e corpore; aliquem domo latitantem; ☞ trahere telum de corpore, † Ov.): exprimere (PROP., to squeeze out; e.g., pecuniam ab aliquo; also IMPROP., to extract a denial, that, exprimere, ut se [fecisse aliquid] neget): vellere: evellere: (pluck or pull out, vellere plumam, comam, pilos; evellere dentes, Plin.; aculeum severitatis). To extract anything by the roots (figuratively), alicujus rei omnes radicum fibras evellere (Cic.): to extract teeth, dentes evellere (Plin.), excipere (Cels.); eximere (id.): to extract bones (e.g., from a wound), ossa legere (e.g., postquam oculus effossus est, et in capite lecta ossa, Sen., Ben., 5, 24, but quoted from Caes.; there are, however, different readings, ejecta; Fickert conjectures fracta. Vid: Görenz, ad Cic., de Legg. Excurs., 1, p. 289.) The sun extracts the color of anything, solis radii lambendo colorem eripiunt ex aliqua re: to extract a secret from anybody, eblandiri or expiscari aliquid.
To draw forth one substance from another (e.g., by chemical or other process), trahere (to draw; e.g., stirpes succum trahunt ex terra, Cic.): exprimere (to express; of oils, etc.; e.g., succus nuci expressus): secernere (to secrete; e.g., succum a reliquo cibo; bilem ab eo cibo, Cic.): elicere (e.g., ferrum e terrae cavernis, Cic.; ignem lapidum conflictu; and figuratively, verbum ex aliquo; sententiam alicujus, Cic.).
To take a portion from a work, excerpere (ex libro): exscribere (to write out): eligere (to select). Extracted passages, electa (Plin., Ep., 3, 5, ☞ not excerpta): eclogarii (Cic., Att., 16, 2): eclogae (Varr., ap. Charis.). To extract the most beautiful passages of a work, ex scripto flores decerpere (after Plin., Ep.).
In mathematics, extrahere (as technical term). To extract the square root, *radicem quadratam extrahere.
extract
*locus ex aliquo exscriptus. Extracts, eclogarii (Cic., Att., 16, 2); electa, orum. A book of extracts, electorum commentarius: ☞ excerpta not found, Krebs. To make an extract, aliquid excerpere; exscribere: to make an extract from a book, e libro excerpere (to take passages).
An extract (in pharmacy), succus alicui rei expressus (e.g., nuci, Plin.): decoctum (Plin.).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for extract?
- The usual Latin words for “extract” are extrahō, exprimō, vellō; also ēvellō, trahō, sēcernō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.