extortion

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ

Proto-Indo-European *-s

Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs

Proto-Italic *eks

Latin ex

Latin ex-

Proto-Indo-European *terkʷ-

Proto-Indo-European *-yeti

Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti

Proto-Indo-European *torkʷ-éye-ti

Proto-Italic *torkʷejō

Proto-Italic *torkʷeō

Latin torqueō

Latin extorqueō

Late Latin extortiōbor.

Middle English extorcion

English extortion

From Middle English extorcion, from Anglo-Norman extorcion, extorcioun, extorsioun, from Late Latin extortiō, from extorqueō. By surface analysis, extort +‎ -ion.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪkˈstɔːʃən/, /ɛk-/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪkˈstɔɹʃən/, /ɛk-/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)ʃən

Noun

extortion (plural extortions)

1. The practice of extorting money or other property by the use of force or threats.

   Hyponym: blackmail

   • 1986 February 17, Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes (comic):

     Heck, what's a little extortion among friends?

Derived terms

• antiextortion
• cryptoviral extortion
• cyberextortion
• extortioner
• extortionist
• extortionous
• nonextortion
• sextortion

Derived terms

• double extortion

Related terms

• extortionary, extortionate, extortive

Translations

the practice of extorting money or other property

• Arabic: اِبْتِزَاز (ar) m (ibtizāz)
• Armenian: շորթում (hy) (šortʻum)
• Belarusian: вымага́нне n (vymahánnje), вымага́ньне n (vymahánʹnje), здзíрства n (zdzírstva), вымага́льніцтва n (vymahálʹnictva), шанта́ж m (šantáž, literally “blackmail”)
• Bulgarian: изну́дване (bg) n (iznúdvane), шанта́ж (bg) m (šantáž, literally “blackmail”)
• Catalan: extorsió (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 勒索 (zh) (lèsuǒ), 敲詐 / 敲诈 (zh) (qiāozhà)

• Czech: vydírání (cs) n
• Danish: afpresning c
• Dutch: afpersing (nl) f
• Esperanto: eldevigo, malhonestaĵo
• Estonian: väljapressimine (et)
• Finnish: kiristys (fi), kiskonta (fi)
• French: extorsion (fr) f
• Galician: extorsión (gl) f
• Georgian: გამოძალვა (gamoʒalva)
• German: Erpressung (de) f, Wucher (de) m, Extorsion f
• Greek: χρηματολογία (el) f (chrimatología), εκβιασμός (el) m (ekviasmós)
• Hungarian: zsarolás (hu), kicsikarás, extorzió
• Indonesian: pemerasan (id)
• Italian: estorsione (it) f
• Japanese: 強要 (ja) (きょうよう, kyōyō), ゆすり (ja) (yusuri), たかり (ja) (takari)
• Kazakh: бопсалаушылық (bopsalawšılıq)
• Korean: 강요(強要) (ko) (gang'yo)
• Latin: repetundae f pl
• Macedonian: изнуда f (iznuda), уцена f (ucena)
• Malay: peras ugut
• Middle English: extorcion
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: utpressing m or f

• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: اَخاذی (fa) (axâzi), اَخَّاذی (fa) (axxâzi)

• Polish: wymuszenie (pl) n, zdzierstwo n
• Portuguese: extorsão (pt) f
• Romanian: extorcare (ro) f
• Russian: вымога́тельство (ru) n (vymogátelʹstvo), шанта́ж (ru) m (šantáž, literally “blackmail”)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: и̏знуда f, у̏цена f, у̏цјена f

  Latin: ȉznuda (sh) f, ȕcena (sh) f, ȕcjena (sh) f

• Slovak: vydieranie n
• Slovene: izsiljevanje n
• Spanish: extorsión (es) f
• Swedish: utpressning (sv) c
• Tagalog: pangingikil, kikil (tl)
• Tajik: тамаъҷӯӣ (tama'jüyi)
• Turkish: şantaj (tr), haraç (tr)
• Ukrainian: зди́рство n (zdýrstvo), вимага́ння n (vymahánnja), ре́кет m (réket, literally “(extortion) racket/racketeering”), шанта́ж m (šantáž, literally “blackmail”)

Further reading

• extortion on Wikipedia.Wikipedia