emigrate

English

Etymology

From Latin emigratus, perfect passive participle of emigro (“to move away, remove, depart from a place”), from ex- (“out of, from”) + migro (“to move, remove, depart”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: ĕʹmĭ.grāt'
• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɛmɪɡɹeɪt/
• (pin–pen merger) IPA^(key): /ˈɪmɪɡɹeɪt/
• Homophone: immigrate (pin–pen merger)
• Hyphenation: em‧i‧grate

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Verb

emigrate (third-person singular simple present emigrates, present participle emigrating, simple past and past participle emigrated)

1. (intransitive) To leave the country in which one lives, especially one's native country, in order to reside elsewhere.
   • 1856 February, [Thomas Babington] Macaulay, “Oliver Goldsmith”, in T[homas] F[lower] E[llis], editor, The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, new edition, London: Longman, Green, Reader, & Dyer, published 1871, →OCLC:

     Forced to emigrate in a body to America.

   • 1872, John Henry Newman, Historical Sketches:

     They [the Huns] were emigrating from Tartary into Europe in the time of the Goths.

Antonyms

• immigrate

Related terms

• emigrant
• emigration
• émigré
• immigrant
• immigrate
• immigration
• migrate
• migration
• migratory

Translations

to leave one's country in order to reside elsewhere

• Albanian: emigroj (sq), mërgoj (sq)
• Armenian: արտագաղթել (artagaġtʻel)
• Catalan: emigrar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 移民 (zh) (yímín), 移居 (zh) (yíjū)

• Czech: emigrovat
• Danish: emigrere, udvandre
• Dutch: emigreren (nl)
• Esperanto: elmigri
• Finnish: muuttaa maasta, emigroitua (fi)
• French: émigrer (fr)
• German: auswandern (de), emigrieren (de)
• Hungarian: emigrál (hu), kivándorol (hu)
• Ido: emigrar (io)
• Italian: emigrare (it)
• Japanese: 移住する (ja) (いじゅうする, ijū suru), 移民する (ja) (いみんする, imin suru)
• Maori: maunu
• Portuguese: emigrar (pt)
• Russian: эмигри́ровать (ru) impf or pf (emigrírovatʹ), переселя́ться (ru) impf (pereseljátʹsja), пересели́ться (ru) pf (pereselítʹsja)
• Spanish: emigrar (es)
• Swedish: emigrera (sv), utvandra (sv)
• Welsh: ymfudo (cy)

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• Meritage, graemite

Italian

Etymology 1

Adjective

emigrate f pl

1. feminine plural of emigrato

Participle

emigrate f pl

1. feminine plural of emigrato

Etymology 2

Noun

emigrate f

1. plural of emigrata

Etymology 3

Verb

emigrate

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

Anagrams

• gremiate, megateri, mergiate, regimate, remigate

Latin

Verb

ēmigrāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of ēmigrō

Spanish

Verb

emigrate

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