Etymology

From LatinCategory:English terms borrowed from Latin#EMANATECategory:English terms derived from Latin#EMANATE ēmānāre (“to flow out, spring out of, arise, proceed from”), from e (“out”) + mānāre (“to flow”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɛm.əˌneɪt/Category:English 3-syllable words#EMANATECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#EMANATE

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Verb

emanate (third-person singular simple present emanates, present participle emanating, simple past and past participle emanated)Category:English lemmas#EMANATECategory:English verbs#EMANATECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#EMANATECategory:Pages with entries#EMANATECategory:Pages with 4 entries#EMANATE

1. (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#EMANATE) To come from a source; issue from.

   Fragrance emanates from flowers.Category:English terms with usage examples#EMANATE

   • 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, […]

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   • 1830, Thomas De Quincey, “Kant in his Miscellaneous Essays”, in Blackwood's Magazine:

     that subsisting form of government from which all special laws emanate

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   • 1959 November 20, Roald Dahl, "The Landlady"‎, archived from the original on 19 March 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.

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   • 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.

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2. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#EMANATE, rareCategory:English terms with rare senses#EMANATE) To send or give out; emit.
   • 2015, Charles Holdefer, Nice:

     […] his baggy, wrinkled suit emanating a diapery stench […]

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Further reading

• “emanate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “emanate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “emanate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• enemata, manatee

Etymology 1

Etymology 2

Verb

ēmānāteCategory:Latin non-lemma forms#EMANATECategory:Latin verb forms#EMANATECategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#EMANATECategory:Pages with entries#EMANATECategory:Pages with 4 entries#EMANATE

1. second-person plural present active imperative of ēmānō

Verb

emanateCategory:Spanish non-lemma forms#EMANATECategory:Spanish verb forms#EMANATECategory:Spanish entries with incorrect language header#EMANATECategory:Pages with entries#EMANATECategory:Pages with 4 entries#EMANATE

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of emanar combined with te