extort
English
/ɪkˈstɔː(ɹ)t/
verb
Definitions
- (transitive) To take or seize off an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity
- (transitive) To obtain by means of the offense of extortion.
- (transitive) To twist outwards.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin extortus (extorted) root from Proto-Indo-European *terkʷ- (turn, twist, spin, wind).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*terkʷ-
Gloss
turn, twist, spin, wind
Concept
Semantic Field
Motion
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
風
Emoji
🙃
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- extortee English
- extorter English
- extortive English
- intort English
- nonextortive English
- contortus Latin
- distortum Latin
- extortiō Latin
- extortus Latin
- nasturtium Latin
- retorqueo Latin
- retortus Latin
- tormentum Latin
- torqueo Latin
- torqueō Latin
- torquēre Latin
- torquēs Latin
- torsio Latin
- torta pānis, tortus Latin
- tortio Latin
- tortum Latin
- tortuosus Latin
- tortura Latin
- tortus Latin
- tortuōsus Latin
- tortūra Latin
- tricae Latin
- trua Latin
- turpis Latin
- estorto Italian
- storto Italian
- τέρπω Ancient Greek
- τρέπω Ancient Greek
- ἄτρακτος Ancient Greek
- *telkʷ- Proto-Indo-European
- *terkʷ- Proto-Indo-European
- *trewd- Proto-Indo-European
- *þarhô Proto-Germanic
- *þerh- Proto-Germanic
- *þwerhaz Proto-Germanic
- thwert Middle English
- thwerten Middle English
- torcious Old French
- trousse Old French
- torri Welsh
- contortion Middle French
- *tarkúš Proto-Indo-Iranian
- stuart Friulian
- 𒋻𒌑𒍣 Hittite