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emanate

US/ˈɛm.əˌneɪt/
verbC1Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #12,466 of 15,258neutral

Other forms: emanating, emanated, emanates

To emanate is to flow out from a source. Emanate from, a smell emanating from the kitchen, emanate confidence.

It nearly always takes from, and the source matters as much as the thing flowing. Of a person it means to give off a quality without doing anything, which is the flattering use.

Definitions of emanate

  1. 1verbemanateTo flow out from a source.C1

    “A wonderful smell of fresh bread emanated from the bakery down the street.”

emanate is a flowing.

Where it comes from

Latin emanare means to flow out, from ex plus manare, to flow.

  1. Proto-Indo-European

    *meh₂- (wet)

  2. Latin

    ēmānāre

  3. English, today

    emanate

Built from

  • ē · Latin — out
  • mānāre · Latin — to flow

Borrowed from Latin ēmānāre, from und + ē. From Latin ēmānāre (“to flow out, spring out of, arise, proceed from”), from ē (“out”) + mānāre (“to flow”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

emanate in the wild

  • According to Gylfaginning, Niflheim was the first of the two primordial realms to emanate out of Ginnungagap, the other one being Muspelheim, the realm of fire.

    Niflheim

  • The Harding and Sargent Icefields, as well as the many glaciers that emanate from them, originate in the Kenai Mountains.

    Kenai Mountains

  • Green and red rays emanate from the map, making it look like the sun and also the Ravenala, a plant typical of Madagascar.

    Emblem of Madagascar

  • No organ or authority can exercise any State authority which does not emanate from the constitution.

    Constitution of Northern Cyprus

  • The two principal arms emanate from a small bar and start to branch into several thin fragments after some distance.

    NGC 5468

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.