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:
      [] 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, []
    • De Quincey
      that subsisting from of government from which all special laws emanate
  2. (transitive, rare) To send or give out; manifest.

Translations

Further reading

  • emanate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • emanate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
  • emanate at OneLook Dictionary Search

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Italian

Verb

emanate

  1. second-person plural present indicative of emanare
  2. second-person plural imperative of emanare
  3. feminine plural of emanato

Latin

Verb

ēmānāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of ēmānō
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