emanate

English

Etymology

From Latin ēmānāre (“to flow out, spring out of, arise, proceed from”), from e (“out”) + mānāre (“to flow”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɛm.ə.ˌneɪt/

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Verb

emanate (third-person singular simple present emanates, present participle emanating, simple past and past participle emanated)

1. (intransitive) To come from a source; issue from.

   Fragrance emanates from flowers.

   • 1837, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers‎^[1]:

     […] this Association has taken into its serious consideration a proposal, emanating from the aforesaid, Samuel Pickwick, Esq., G.C.M.P.C., and three other Pickwickians hereinafter named, […]

   • 1830, Thomas De Quincey, “Kant in his Miscellaneous Essays”, in Blackwood's Magazine:

     that subsisting form of government from which all special laws emanate

2. (transitive, rare) To send or give out; manifest.

Related terms

• emanation

Translations

To come from a source

• Arabic: اِنْبَثَقَ (inbaṯaqa)
• Bulgarian: произлизам (bg) (proizlizam), произтичам (bg) (proiztičam)
• Dutch: uitstralen (nl), ontstaan uit, voortkomen uit
• Esperanto: emani
• Finnish: kantautua, kulkeutua, huokua (fi)
• French: émaner (fr)
• German: ausstrahlen (de)
• Greek: πηγάζω (el) (pigázo)
• Italian: emanare (it)
• Maori: puta, take, pūtake
• Persian: ساطع شدن (sâte' šodan)
• Polish: emanować (pl) impf
• Spanish: emanar (es)
• Swedish: härröra (sv), utgå (sv), emanera (sv)
• Ukrainian: виходити (uk) (vyxodyty), витікати (vytikaty), випромінювати (vyprominjuvaty)

Further reading

• “emanate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “emanate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “emanate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• enemata, manatee

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

emanate

1. inflection of emanare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

emanate f pl

1. feminine plural of emanato

Latin

Verb

ēmānāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of ēmānō

Spanish

Verb

emanate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of emanar combined with te