emendate

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English

Etymology

From the Latin ēmendātus (corrected), the perfect passive participle of ēmendō (I free from faults, correct).

Pronunciation

  • (adjective): enPR: ēʹmĕndət, IPA(key): /ˈiːmɛndət/
  • (verb): enPR: ēʹmĕndāt, IPA(key): /ˈiːmɛndeɪt/

Adjective

emendate (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) emended, corrected, restored

Derived terms

Verb

emendate (third-person singular simple present emendates, present participle emendating, simple past and past participle emendated)

  1. (transitive) Remove errors and corruptions from (a text); to emend (a text).

References

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

emendate

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

Etymology 2

Participle

emendate f pl

  1. feminine plural of emendato

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

From ēmendātus (correct, faultless, perfect), from ēmendō (I free from faults, I correct, I improve, I amend) and (-ly, -ily).

Adverb

ēmendātē (comparative ēmendātius, superlative ēmendātissimē)

  1. faultlessly, correctly, perfectly, purely
    ēmendātē loquīto speak correctly

Synonyms

References

  • 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, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to write correctly, in faultless style: emendate scribere

Spanish

Verb

emendate

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