emanate
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin ēmānāre (“to flow out, spring out of, arise, proceed from”), from e (“out”) + mānāre (“to flow”).
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
emanate (third-person singular simple present emanates, present participle emanating, simple past and past participle emanated)
- (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
- (transitive, rare) To send or give out; manifest.
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Translations edit
To come from a source
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Further reading edit
- “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 edit
Italian edit
Etymology 1 edit
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emanate
- inflection of emanare:
Etymology 2 edit
Participle edit
emanate f pl
Latin edit
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ēmānāte
Spanish edit
Verb edit
emanate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of emanar combined with te