emanate

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, […]

   • 1830, Thomas De Quincey, Kant in his Miscellaneous Essays (published in Blackwood's Magazine)

     that subsisting form of government from which all special laws emanate

2. (transitive, rare) To send or give out; manifest.

Related terms

• emanation

Translations

To come from a source

Arabic: اِنْبَثَقَ‎ (inbaṯaqa) Bulgarian: произлизам (bg) (proizlizam), произтичам (bg) (proiztičam) Dutch: uitstralen (nl), ontstaan uit, voortkomen uit Esperanto: emani Finnish: kantautua, kulkeutua, huokua (fi) French: émaner (fr) German: ausstrahlen (de) Greek: πηγάζω (el) (pigázo) Italian: emanare (it) Maori: puta, take, pūtake Persian: ساطع شدن‎ (sâte' šodan) Polish: emanować (pl) impf Spanish: emanar (es) Swedish: härröra (sv), utgå (sv), emanera (sv)

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

Anagrams

• enemata, manatee

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Italian

Verb

emanate

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

Participle

emanate f pl

1. feminine plural of emanato

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Latin

Verb

ēmānāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of ēmānō