What does ēmendō mean in Latin?

ēmendō, a verb, means “to free from faults, correct, improve, remedy, amend, revise, cure; to correct by punishment, chastise, atone or compensate for”.

What are the principal parts of ēmendō?

ēmendō, ēmendāre, ēmendāvī, ēmendātum (first conjugation).

How do you pronounce ēmendō?

In classical Latin, [eːˈmɛn.doː]; in ecclesiastical (church) Latin, [eˈmɛn.do].

Where does ēmendō come from?

Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ → Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs → Proto-Italic *eks → Latin ēmendō.

Which English words come from ēmendō?

English words that go back to Latin ēmendō include mend, amend, emend, emendate, emendation and emendator.

verbfirst conjugation

ēmendō

ēmendō (present infinitive ēmendāre, perfect active ēmendāvī, supine ēmendātum)

Classical[eːˈmɛn.doː]Ecclesiastical[eˈmɛn.do]

ēmendātus perf. pass. ptcp.

Meaning

to free from faults, correct, improve, remedy, amend, revise, cure
to correct by punishment, chastise, atone or compensate for

Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers

corrigō

ēmendō -āre — in IVLIANVS II: Imperium, ch. 20

Choosing the right word Döderlein's Latin Synonyms

Corrigere · Emendare

Corrigere means to amend, after the manner of a rigid schoolmaster or disciplinarian, who would make the crooked straight, and set the wrong right; whereas emendare, after the manner of an experienced teacher, and sympathizing friend, who would make what is defective complete. Plin. Pan. 6, 2. Corrupta est disciplina castrorum, ut tu corrector emendatorque contingeres; the former by strictness, the latter by wisdom. Cic. Mur. 29. Verissime dixerim, nulla in re te (Catonem) esse hujusmodi ut corrigendus potius quam leviter inflectendus viderere; comp. with Plin. Ep. i. 10. Non castigat errantes, sed emendat. (v. 319.)

Conjugation conjugation 1

active indicative
form	present	imperfect	future	perfect	pluperfect	fut. perfect
1st sg.	ēmendō	ēmendābam	ēmendābō	ēmendāvī	ēmendāveram	ēmendāverō ēmendārō
2nd sg.	ēmendās	ēmendābās	ēmendābis	ēmendāvistī ēmendāstī	ēmendāverās ēmendārās	ēmendāveris
3rd sg.	ēmendat	ēmendābat	ēmendābit	ēmendāvit	ēmendāverat ēmendārat	ēmendāverit ēmendārit
1st pl.	ēmendāmus	ēmendābāmus	ēmendābimus	ēmendāvimus	ēmendāverāmus	ēmendāverimus ēmendārimus
2nd pl.	ēmendātis	ēmendābātis	ēmendābitis	ēmendāvistis ēmendāstis	ēmendāverātis ēmendārātis	ēmendāveritis ēmendāritis
3rd pl.	ēmendant	ēmendābant	ēmendābunt	ēmendāvērunt ēmendāvēre, ēmendārunt	ēmendāverant ēmendārant	ēmendāverint ēmendārint

active subjunctive

active subjunctive
form	present	imperfect	perfect	pluperfect
1st sg.	ēmendem	ēmendārem	ēmendāverim ēmendārim	ēmendāvissem ēmendāssem
2nd sg.	ēmendēs	ēmendārēs	ēmendāverīs	ēmendāvissēs ēmendāssēs
3rd sg.	ēmendet	ēmendāret	ēmendāverit ēmendārit	ēmendāvisset ēmendāsset
1st pl.	ēmendēmus	ēmendārēmus	ēmendāverīmus ēmendārīmus	ēmendāvissēmus ēmendāssēmus
2nd pl.	ēmendētis	ēmendārētis	ēmendāverītis ēmendārītis	ēmendāvissētis ēmendāssētis
3rd pl.	ēmendent	ēmendārent	ēmendāverint ēmendārint	ēmendāvissent ēmendāssent

passive indicative

passive indicative
form	present	imperfect	future
1st sg.	ēmendor	ēmendābar	ēmendābor
2nd sg.	ēmendāris ēmendāre	ēmendābāris ēmendābāre	ēmendāberis ēmendābere
3rd sg.	ēmendātur	ēmendābātur	ēmendābitur
1st pl.	ēmendāmur	ēmendābāmur	ēmendābimur
2nd pl.	ēmendāminī	ēmendābāminī	ēmendābiminī
3rd pl.	ēmendantur	ēmendābantur	ēmendābuntur

passive subjunctive

passive subjunctive
form	present	imperfect
1st sg.	ēmender	ēmendārer
2nd sg.	ēmendēris ēmendēre	ēmendārēris ēmendārēre
3rd sg.	ēmendētur	ēmendārētur
1st pl.	ēmendēmur	ēmendārēmur
2nd pl.	ēmendēminī	ēmendārēminī
3rd pl.	ēmendentur	ēmendārentur

imperative

imperative
form	active	passive
pres. 2nd sg.	ēmendā	ēmendāre
pres. 2nd pl.	ēmendāte	ēmendāminī
fut. 2nd sg.	ēmendātō	ēmendātor
fut. 3rd sg.	ēmendātō	ēmendātor
fut. 2nd pl.	ēmendātōte	—
fut. 3rd pl.	ēmendantō	ēmendantor

infinitives & participles
form	active	passive
present infinitive	ēmendāre	ēmendārī
perfect infinitive	ēmendāvisse ēmendāsse	ēmendātum esse
future infinitive	ēmendātūrum esse	ēmendātum īrī
present participle	ēmendāns	—
perfect participle	—	ēmendātus ēmendāta, ēmendātā, ēmendātae, ēmendātam, ēmendātārum, ēmendātās, ēmendātī, ēmendātōrum, ēmendātōs
future participle	ēmendātūrus ēmendātūra, ēmendātūrā, ēmendātūrae, ēmendātūram, ēmendātūrārum, ēmendātūrās, ēmendātūre, ēmendātūrī, ēmendātūrīs, ēmendātūrō, ēmendātūrōrum, ēmendātūrōs, ēmendātūrum	ēmendandus ēmendanda, ēmendandā, ēmendandae, ēmendandam, ēmendandārum, ēmendandās, ēmendande, ēmendandīs, ēmendandōrum, ēmendandōs

gerundēmendandī, ēmendandō, ēmendandumsupineēmendātum, ēmendātū

Phrases from Meissner's Latin Phrase-Book

emendate scribere: to write correctly, in faultless style.
oratio pura, pura et emendata: pure, correct language.

ē-mendo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. mendum,

I. to free from faults, to correct, improve, amend (cf. corrigo—class.; not in Caes.): tota civitas emendari et corrigi solet continentia principum, Cic. Leg. 3, 13, 30; cf. Quint. 2, 2, 7; 2, 4, 14; 9, 3, 89: leviter tuum consilium (with conformare), Cic. Mur. 29: consuetudinem vitiosam, id. Brut. 75: vitia adolescentiae multis virtutibus, Nep. Them. 1: facta priora novis, Ov. F. 4, 596: res Italas legibus, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 3: legem severius, Suet. Aug. 34: sucos acerbos in pomis, Ov. Med. Fac. 5; cf. terram terrā, Plin. 17, 5, 3, § 41: bovem cubitorem fame et siti, Col. 6, 2, 11: angorem animi (sui), Amm. 14, 10, 2.—Esp. freq. of correcting, emending language (oral or written), Cic. Att. 2, 16 fin.; id. Or. 46; Quint. 2, 2, 7; 8, 2, 4 et saep.—In medic. lang., like corrigere, for to cure: alopecias, Plin. 20, 13, 50, § 129: tussim, id. 20, 16, 62, § 170: albugines oculorum, id. 32, 7, 24, § 70: cicatrices, id. 36, 21, 42, § 156 et saep. —

II. In post-class. lang. in partic., to correct by punishment, to chastise: libertum non obsequentem aut verbis aut fustium castigatione, Dig. 1, 16, 9, § 3; Lampr. Alex. Sev. 51; Lact. Mort. Pers. 22 al.— Hence, ēmendātus, a, um, P. a., faultless, perfect, pure: mores, Cic. Lael. 17, 61; cf. vir, Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 30; Plin. Ep. 3, 3, 5: e. et Latina locutio, Cic. Brut. 74; cf. Quint. 1, 5, 1; 33; 2, 4, 15 al.: opus, Plin. 34, 8, 19, § 92: aquae, id. 36, 15, 24, § 121.—Comp.: mulier, Petr. 126, 13: vita, Dig. 4, 3, 11.— Sup.: homo (with optimus), Plin. Ep. 8, 22, 2: libri, Quint. Ep. ad Tryph. § 3; cf.: correcta et emendata maxime, Cic. Ac. 1, 4, 13.—Adv.: ēmendāte, faultlessly, perfectly, purely: loqui, scribere, etc., Cic. Opt. Gen. 2; Quint. 8, 1, 2; 8, 3, 1; Hirt. B. G. 8 prooem. § 6; Vitr. 10, 11.—Comp.: facere capillum, Plin. 34, 8, 19, § 58; Quint. 1, 6, 19 Zumpt.

Origins

Proto-Indo-European*h₁éǵʰ
Proto-Indo-European*h₁éǵʰs
Proto-Italic*eks
Latinēmendō

Latin ex- Proto-Indo-European *mend-der. Latin mendum Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin ēmendō From ex- (“out”) + mendum (“fault”) + -ō.

Descendants

Englishamend
Englishemend
Englishemendate
Catalanesmenar
Frenchamender
Frenchémender
Germanemendieren
Italianemendare
Italianammendare
Portugueseemendar

In English words that came into English from ēmendō

mendēmendāre
amendēmendō
emendēmendō
emendationēmendātiō
emendateēmendātus
emendatorēmendātor
emendableemendabilis