emancipate

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ɪˈmæn(t)sɪpət/
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• General-American: /əˈmæn(t)səˌpət/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ɪˈmæn(t)sɪpeɪt/
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• General-American: /əˈmæn(t)səˌpeɪt/
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• CMU ARPABET: IH0 M AE1 N S AH0 P EY2 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Learned 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)). The verb emancipate has verb sense 1.1 (“to set free”) and verb sense 1.3 (“(obsolete) to place under one’s control”) which are contradictory. The Latin word ēmancipō had the same senses, and the Oxford English Dictionary notes that according to the Latin grammarian Paulus Festus (fl. 8th century) this is because both actions were effected by the legal process of mancipation.

76 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Abkhaz: ахы́ а́қәиҭтәра (axə́ ákwittwʼra) — to set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another — see also liberate
• Arabic: أَطْلَقَ (ʔaṭlaqa) — to set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another — see also liberate
• Arabic: أَعْتَقَ (ʔaʕtaqa) — to set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another — see also liberate
• Arabic: حَرَّرَ (ḥarrara) — to set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another — see also liberate
• Armenian: ազատագրել (azatagrel) — to set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another — see also liberate
• Basque: emantzipatzeko — to set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another — see also liberate
• Bulgarian: еманципирам (emancipiram) — to set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another — see also liberate
• Catalan: emancipar — to set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another — see also liberate
• Chinese Cantonese: 解放 (gaai2 fong3) — to set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another — see also liberate
• Chinese: 解放 (zh-min-nan) — to set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another — see also liberate
• Chinese Mandarin: 解放 (jiěfàng) — to set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another — see also liberate
• Danish: frigøre — to set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another — see also liberate
• Dutch: emanciperen — to set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another — see also liberate
• Dutch: vrijmaken — to set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another — see also liberate
• Esperanto: emancipi — to set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another — see also liberate
• Finnish: emansipoida — to set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another — see also liberate
• Finnish: vapauttaa — to set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another — see also liberate
• French: émanciper — to set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another — see also liberate
• French: affranchir — to set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another — see also liberate
• Galician: emancipar — to set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another — see also liberate
• German: emanzipieren — to set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another — see also liberate
• German: verselbstständigen — to set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another — see also liberate
• Greek: ανεξαρτητοποιώ (anexartitopoió) — to set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another — see also liberate
• Greek: ανεξαρτοποιώ (anexartopoió) — to set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another — see also liberate
• Greek: απελευθερώνω (apeleftheróno) — to set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another — see also liberate
• Greek: χειραφετώ (cheirafetó) — to set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another — see also liberate
• Hebrew: גָּאַל (ga'ál) — to set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another — see also liberate
• Hindi: उबारना (ubārnā) — to set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another — see also liberate
• Hindi: उद्धार करना (uddhār karnā) — to set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another — see also liberate
• Icelandic: ánauðarfrelsun — to set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another — see also liberate
• Indonesian: untuk membebaskan — to set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another — see also liberate
• Irish: fuascail — to set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another — see also liberate
• Irish: saor — to set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another — see also liberate
• Italian: emancipare — to set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another — see also liberate
• Italian: emanciparsi — to set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another — see also liberate
• Japanese: 解放する (kaihō suru) — to set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another — see also liberate
• Latin: ēmancipō — to set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another — see also liberate
• Latin: asserō — to set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another — see also liberate
• Latin: eximō — to set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another — see also liberate
• Latin: līberō — to set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another — see also liberate
• Latin: manūmittō — to set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another — see also liberate
• Latin: vindicō — to set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another — see also liberate
• Macedonian: еманципира (emancipira) — to set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another — see also liberate
• Maltese: emanċipa — to set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another — see also liberate
• Norwegian: å frigjøre — to set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another — see also liberate
• Polish: emancypować — to set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another — see also liberate
• Polish: wyemancypować — to set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another — see also liberate
• Polish: wyzwolić — to set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another — see also liberate
• Portuguese: emancipar — to set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another — see also liberate
• Romanian: emancipa — to set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another — see also liberate
• Romanian: dezlega — to set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another — see also liberate
• Romanian: dezrobi — to set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another — see also liberate
• Romanian: elibera — to set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another — see also liberate
• Russian: эмансипи́ровать (emansipírovatʹ) — to set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another — see also liberate
• Russian: освобожда́ть (osvoboždátʹ) — to set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another — see also liberate
• Russian: освободи́ть (osvobodítʹ) — to set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another — see also liberate
• Spanish: emancipar — to set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another — see also liberate
• Spanish: manumitir — to set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another — see also liberate
• Swahili: komboa — to set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another — see also liberate
• Swedish: emancipera — to set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another — see also liberate
• Ukrainian: відпуска́ти (vidpuskáty) — to set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another — see also liberate
• Ukrainian: відпусти́ти (vidpustýty) — to set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another — see also liberate
• Vietnamese: giải phóng — to set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another — see also liberate
• Welsh: rhyddfreinio — to set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another — see also liberate
• Finnish: vapauttaa — to cause (a place) to be free from the colonization or rule of another entity
• Chinese Mandarin: 翻身 (fānshēn) — to set free (oneself or someone) from imprisonment, or from serfdom or slavery
• Czech: emancipovat — to set free (oneself or someone) from imprisonment, or from serfdom or slavery
• Finnish: vapauttaa — to set free (oneself or someone) from imprisonment, or from serfdom or slavery
• Italian: emanciparsi — to set free (oneself or someone) from imprisonment, or from serfdom or slavery
• Spanish: manumitir — to set free (oneself or someone) from imprisonment, or from serfdom or slavery
• Welsh: rhyddfreinio — to set free (oneself or someone) from imprisonment, or from serfdom or slavery
• Dutch: ontvoogden — to release (a minor) from the legal authority and custody which a parent or guardian has over them; (Ancient Rome, historical) to release (a child) from the legal authority of the paterfamilias
• Finnish: erottaa — to release (a minor) from the legal authority and custody which a parent or guardian has over them; (Ancient Rome, historical) to release (a child) from the legal authority of the paterfamilias
• Finnish: irtautua — to free (oneself or someone, or something) from some constraint or controlling influence (especially when evil or undue); to free (oneself or someone) from mental oppression
• Finnish: vapautua — to free (oneself or someone, or something) from some constraint or controlling influence (especially when evil or undue); to free (oneself or someone) from mental oppression
• French: émanciper — to free (oneself or someone, or something) from some constraint or controlling influence (especially when evil or undue); to free (oneself or someone) from mental oppression