emanate
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin ēmānāre (“to flow out, spring out of, arise, proceed from”), from e (“out”) + mānāre (“to flow”).
Pronunciation
editVerb
editemanate (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
- 1959 November 20, Roald Dahl, "The Landlady"[2], archived from the original on March 19, 2023:
- Now and again, he caught a whiff of a peculiar smell that seemed to emanate directly from her person. It was not in the least unpleasant, and it reminded him—well, he wasn’t quite sure what it reminded him of.
- 2024 May 1, Tom Ingall, “Hope springs eternal for better services”, in RAIL, number 1008, page 52:
- The smell of fresh asphalt hangs heavy in the air at Dore & Totley station. It's even powerful enough to overcome the usual delightful aromas emanating from the well-known curry house which occupies the original platform building.
- (transitive, rare) To send or give out; manifest.
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editTranslations
editTo 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
editItalian
editEtymology 1
editVerb
editemanate
- inflection of emanare:
Etymology 2
editParticiple
editemanate f pl
Latin
editVerb
editēmānāte
Spanish
editVerb
editemanate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of emanar combined with te
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