emulator
/ˈemjəˌleɪtə/EH-myuh-lay-tur
UK form converted from the US by rule · unchecked/ˈɛmjəˌleɪtɚ/EH-myuh-lay-tur
Meaningone who emulates
Common meaning: a person or program that imitates another
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- emulstriving to match, rivallingLewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), p. 55 · scan
- atverb or adjective ending: to make, having
- oragent ending: the doer, or the device that does it
Journey through time
- Latinaemulus, -a, -um‘striving to match, rivalling’
- Englishemulate‘to copy someone in the hope of matching them’
- Englishformed in English from emulateemulator‘a person or program that imitates another’ · today
Sources & notes
Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
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- US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
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Origin: Formed in English from emulate + -or.
Dictionary: Skeat (1898), EMULATE, p.190 · scan
Roots
- aemulus, -a, -um Latin “striving to match, rivalling”
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