excerpta

[ ik-surp-tuh ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

plural noun

short selections or pieces of writing, especially summary statements or parts of a longer work.

1630–40; < Latin, noun use of neuter plural past participle of excerpere. See excerpt

This most precious excerpta he continued to read and devoutly study with great profit and comfort.

Historica qudam excerpta ex veteri stemmate genealogico Regum Franci.

Schuch incorporated the excerpta with his Apicius, placing the formulæ in what he believed to be the proper order.

M. Ihm, who faithfully reprinted the excerpta in the Archiv f. lat.

It is furthermore interesting to note that the excerpta, too, are silent about Cœlius.

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