English → Latin
“emancipate” in Latin
līberōto free, set free, liberate; to release, deliver; to absolve, acquiteximōto take out, take away, remove or extract; to free; to release, deliver
The English word emancipate itself goes back to Latin manceps, through ēmancipātus.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
emancipate
liberare; from anything, re or a re; in libertatem vindicare aliquem; libeitatem largiri alicui (Cic.): one’s self, se vindicare in libertatem [Vid: To FREE]: ☞ emancipare was the legal act of a Roman father.
IMPROPR. To emancipate from prejudice, error, fear, etc., liberare aliquem aliqua re; eximere or evellere aliquid alicui; extrahere aliquid ex animo alicujus; levare aliquem aliqua re: to emancipate a man from fear, metum alicui tollere, abstergere; metu aliquem liberare (Cic.); metu aliquem levare (Liv.): from idle fears, inanem timorem dejicere alicui: from error, errorem alicui eripere, extrahere, extorquere; aliquem ab errore avellere; one’s self from anything, se exsolvere aliqua re; se expedire ab aliqua re (e.g., from business); dejicere, depellere aliquid (to drive away; e.g., fear, an error, etc.). Vid: to FREE.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for emancipate?
- The usual Latin words for “emancipate” are līberō, eximō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.