émulo

See also: emulo, êmulo, emuló, and emulò

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• êmulo (Brazil)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Italic *aimos

Proto-Indo-European *-lós

Proto-Indo-European *-elós

Proto-Italic *-elos

Latin -ulus

Latin aemuluslbor.

Portuguese émulo

Learned borrowing from Latin aemulus.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈɛ.mu.lu/

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -ɛmulu
• Hyphenation: é‧mu‧lo

Noun

émulo m (plural émulos, feminine émula, feminine plural émulas) (European Portuguese spelling)

1. rival, competitor

Further reading

• “émulo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin aemulus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈemulo/ [ˈe.mu.lo]
• Rhymes: -emulo
• Syllabification: é‧mu‧lo

Noun

émulo m (plural émulos, feminine émula, feminine plural émulas)

1. rival, competitor

Further reading

• “émulo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025