emanate

[ em-uh-neyt ]

verb (used without object)

, em·a·nat·ed, em·a·nat·ing.

1. to flow out, issue, or proceed, as from a source or origin; come forth; originate.

   Synonyms: flow, spring, arise

verb (used with object)

, em·a·nat·ed, em·a·nat·ing.

1. to send forth; emit.

emanate

/ ˈɛməˌneɪtərɪ; ˈɛməˌneɪt; -trɪ; ˈɛmənətɪv /

verb

1. introften foll byfrom to issue or proceed from or as from a source
2. tr to send forth; emit

Derived Forms

• emanatory, adjective
• emanative, adjective
• ˈemaˌnator, noun

Other Words From

• em·a·na·tive adjective
• em·a·na·tor noun
• em·a·na·to·ry [em, -, uh, -n, uh, -tawr-ee], adjective
• re·em·a·nate verb (used without object) reemanated reemanating
• un·em·a·na·tive adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of emanate¹

First recorded in 1780–90; from Latin ēmānātus “having flowed out” (past participle of ēmānāre ), equivalent to ē- “out of, from” + mān-, stem of mānāre “to flow, trickle” + -ātus adjective suffix; e- ¹, -ate ¹

Word History and Origins

Origin of emanate¹

C18: from Latin ēmānāre to flow out, from mānāre to flow

Example Sentences

On Twitter, the nearly verbatim language emanated from about two dozen accounts through the summer.

From Washington Post

If you recall that distinctive tang of fresh pavement, what your nose is picking up is the volatile organic molecules emanating from the petroleum-based material.

From Popular-Science

They show the expanding limits of a ray of light—and everything else—as it emanates from an initial event, such as an explosion.

From MIT Technology Review

These force fields — the same entities that emanate from fridge magnets — surround Earth, the sun and all galaxies.

From Quanta Magazine

Earth’s field, for instance, emanates from its inner “dynamo,” the current of liquid iron churning in its core.

From Quanta Magazine

The concrete building from which the sounds emanate shakes from the impact, rattling the colorful houses on the dirt roads nearby.

From The Daily Beast

Your bodies will emanate scent, and you will go to paradise.

From The Daily Beast

Cold white wine would somehow emanate from its own spring just outside the door.

From The Daily Beast

India, for its part, counter-charges that many attacks within its borders emanate from Pakistan.

From The Daily Beast

The worthy Germans, who think everything excellent that does not emanate from themselves, copy this custom most conscientiously.

From Project Gutenberg

It may be said that an earnest Barrister should be clean shaven, but the remark would only emanate from those who are bachelors.

From Project Gutenberg

It would, indeed, be disrespectful in the listener not to pay intelligent heed to the discourses which emanate from the pulpit.

From Project Gutenberg

No such crude claims as these emanate from the skilled advertising agents employed by the Sanatogen people.

From Project Gutenberg

But it was not from the members of the Chamber that the movement was to emanate.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• arise
• derive
• emerge
• emit
• exude
• originate
• radiate
• stem

When To Use

What are other ways to say emanate?

To emanate is to flow out or proceed, as from a source or origin. How is emanate different from emerge and issue? Find out on Thesaurus.com.