analecta vs selection

analecta and selection both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
analecta	Yes	No	No	No
selection	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, selection is a hypernym of analecta; that is, selection is a word with a broader meaning than analecta:

Other hypernyms of analecta include excerpt, excerption, extract.

analecta (noun)	selection (noun)
a collection of excerpts from a literary work	the act of choosing or selecting
	the person or thing chosen or selected
	a passage selected from a larger work
	an assortment of things from which a choice can be made
	a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment