Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

emanata

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: em-ana-ta
IPA

9

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

3

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Unrealistic pictorial elements emanating from a character, symbolizing something about that character, such as a sweatdrop for anxiety or a question mark for confusion, or emanating from an object, such as heat rays from the sun.

Example Sentences

"Now that we have our characters, there's a lot more we can do with them to show what's going on inside them. Those of you who believe in mental telepathy should not be at all surprised at the things cartoonists have emanating from their characters."
"Emanata can come from things as well as people to show what's going on."

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ēmānāre, "to flow out,". ēmānāre is the present active infinitive of ēmānō "flow out, ēmānō is derived from the Latin ex- (prefix meaning "out, away") + mānō (verb meaning "to give out; to flow").

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: emanare

Questions

What does emanata mean?: Unrealistic pictorial elements emanating from a character, symbolizing something about that character, such as a sweatdrop for anxiety or a question mark for confusion, or emanating from an object, such as heat rays from the sun.
Where does emanata come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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