emancipate
Synonym of emancipatedSynonym of emancipated (“having been set free from someone's control, or from some constraint; at liberty, free”).
» Are you emancipated?
Bist du emanzipiert? — Waldelfe
Seid ihr emanzipiert? — Waldelfe
Sind Sie emanzipiert? — Waldelfe
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1 sensesSynonym of emancipated (“having been set free from someone's control, or from some constraint; at liberty, free”).
Examples
5 sentencesAre you emancipated?
deBist du emanzipiert? — Waldelfe
Tom emancipated one of his slaves.
ruТом дал вольную одному из своих рабов. — odexed
He promised the slaves that they would be emancipated.
There are five ways to emancipate themselves from the bond of worldly passions.
We anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate themselves.
Origin
Learned borrowing from Latin ēmancipātus (“liberated, emancipated”) + English -ate (suffixLearned borrowing from Latin ēmancipātus (“liberated, emancipated”) + English -ate (suffix forming verbs, and adjectives with the sense ‘characterized by the specified thing’). Ēmancipātus is the perfect passive participle of ēmancipō (“to declare (someone) free and independent of another’s power, emancipate; to give (something) from one’s authority or power into that of another, to alienate, transfer; to cause (oneself or someone) to become another’s slave; to make (someone) subservient”), from ē- (a variant of ex- (prefix meaning ‘away; out’)) + mancipō (“to sell; to transfer”) (from manceps (“owner, possessor; purchaser; etc.”) + -ō (suffix forming infinitives of first-conjugation verbs)).
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Forms
more emancipate, most emancipate| Comparative | more emancipate Lesson |
|---|---|
| Superlative | most emancipate Lesson |
regular
Synonyms
1 synonymsLessons for this word
2 lessons- A2Comparatives — Because it has a comparative form
- A2Superlatives — Because it has a superlative form