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emendate

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English

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

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emendate (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Emended, corrected, restored.

Verb

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

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

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Italian

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Etymology 1

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Verb

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emendate

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

Etymology 2

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Participle

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emendate f pl

  1. feminine plural of emendato

Anagrams

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Latin

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Etymology 1

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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ēmendāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of ēmendō

Participle

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ēmendāte

  1. vocative masculine singular of ēmendātus

Etymology 2

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From ēmendātus (correct), from ēmendō + (adverbial suffix).

Pronunciation

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Adverb

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ēmendātē (comparative ēmendātius, superlative ēmendātissimē)

  1. faultlessly, correctly, perfectly, purely
    Synonym: pūrē
    ēmendātē loquīto speak correctly

References

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  • 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

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Verb

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emendate

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