emendate

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

• emendately

 

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

• “† Emendate, a.” listed on page 118 of volume III (D–E), § ii (E) of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles [first edition, 1897]
• “†emendate, a.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [second edition, 1989]
• “Emendate, v.” listed on page 118 of volume III (D–E), § ii (E) of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles [first edition, 1897]
• “emendate, v.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [second edition, 1989]

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

• datemene

Latin

Etymology

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

Adverb

ēmendātē (comparative ēmendātius, superlative ēmendātissimē)

1. faultlessly, correctly, perfectly, purely

   ēmendātē loquī ― to speak correctly

Synonyms

• (correctly): pūrē

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^[1], 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