emendate
English edit
Etymology edit
From the Latin ēmendātus (“corrected”), the perfect passive participle of ēmendō (“I free from faults, correct”).
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
emendate (not comparable)
Verb edit
emendate (third-person singular simple present emendates, present participle emendating, simple past and past participle emendated)
- (transitive) Remove errors and corruptions from (a text); to emend (a text).
References edit
- “† Emendate, a.” listed on page 118 of volume III (D–E), § ii (E) of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles [first edition, 1897]
- “†emendate, a.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [second edition, 1989]
- “Emendate, v.” listed on page 118 of volume III (D–E), § ii (E) of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles [first edition, 1897]
- “emendate, v.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [second edition, 1989]
Italian edit
Etymology 1 edit
Verb edit
emendate
- inflection of emendare:
Etymology 2 edit
Participle edit
emendate f pl
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From ēmendātus (“correct, faultless, perfect”), from ēmendō (“I free from faults, I correct, I improve, I amend”) and -ē (“-ly, -ily”).
Adverb edit
ēmendātē (comparative ēmendātius, superlative ēmendātissimē)
- faultlessly, correctly, perfectly, purely
- ēmendātē loquī ― to speak correctly
Synonyms edit
- (correctly): pūrē
References edit
- “emendate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “emendate”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to write correctly, in faultless style: emendate scribere
- to write correctly, in faultless style: emendate scribere
Spanish edit
Verb edit
emendate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of emendar combined with te