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.əˌneɪt/

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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”, in Blackwood's Magazine:

     that subsisting form of government from which all special laws emanate

   • 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.

   • 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.

2. (transitive, rare) To send or give out; emit.
   • 2015, Charles Holdefer, Nice:

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

Derived terms

• emanatism
• emanatist
• emanative
• emanator
• emanatory
• nonemanating

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) Turkish: kaynaklanmak; meydana gelmek; oluşmak Ukrainian: виходити (uk) (vyxodyty), витікати (vytikaty), випромінювати (vyprominjuvaty)

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

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

emanate

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

Etymology 2

Participle

emanate f pl

1. feminine plural of emanato

Latin

Verb

ēmānāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of ēmānō

Spanish

Verb

emanate

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