different between child vs emancipate

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: ch?ld, ch???ld, IPA^(key): /t??a?ld/, /?t??a?.?ld/
• Rhymes: -a?ld

Etymology 1

From Middle English child, from Old English ?ild (“fetus; female baby; child”), from Proto-Germanic *kelþaz (“womb; fetus”), from Proto-Indo-European *?elt- (“womb”). Cognate with Danish kuld (“brood, litter”), Swedish kull (“brood, litter”), Icelandic kelta, kjalta (“lap”), Gothic ???????????????????????? (kilþei, “womb”), Sanskrit ???? (jarta), ????? (jártu, “vulva”).

Alternative forms

• childe (archaic)
• (plural): childrens (intentionally incorrect, nonstandard); childs (nonstandard, rare)

Noun

child (plural children or (dialectal or archaic) childer)

1. A person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural (initiation), or legal (majority)
2. (obsolete, specifically) A female child, a girl.
3. (with possessive) One's direct descendant by birth, regardless of age; a son or daughter.

4. (cartomancy) The thirteenth Lenormand card.
5. (figuratively) A figurative offspring, particularly:
   1. A person considered a product of a place or culture, a member of a tribe or culture, regardless of age.
   2. Anything derived from or caused by something.
   3. (computing) A data item, process, or object which has a subservient or derivative role relative to another.
      • 2011, John Mongan, Noah Kindler, Eric Giguère, Programming Interviews Exposed:

        The algorithm pops the stack to obtain a new current node when there are no more children (when it reaches a leaf).

6. Alternative form of childe (“youth of noble birth”)
7. (mathematics) A subordinate node of a tree

Synonyms

• (young person): See Thesaurus:child, Thesaurus:boy, & Thesaurus:girl
• (offspring): See offspring and Thesaurus:son and Thesaurus:daughter, binary clone, progeny, hybrid
• (descendant): See descendant
• (product of a place or era): product, son (male), daughter (female)

Antonyms

• (daughter or son): father, mother, parent
• (person below the age of adulthood): adult
• (data item, process or object in a subordinate role): parent

Derived terms

Related terms

• chield
• Child
• childe
• Childermas

Translations

See also

• orling

Etymology 2

From Middle English childen, from the noun child.

Verb

child (third-person singular simple present childs, present participle childing, simple past and past participle childed)

1. (archaic, transitive, intransitive) To give birth; to beget or procreate.

Translations

Further reading

• Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary (accessed November 2007).
• American Heritage Dictionary, Fourth Edition, Houghton Mifflin Company (2003).

Middle English

Alternative forms

• chyld, chylde, childe, chelde, cild

Etymology

From Old English ?ild, from Proto-Germanic *kelþaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?i?ld/

Noun

child (plural children or childre or child or childres)

1. A baby, infant, toddler; a person in infancy.
2. A child, kid; a young person.
3. An offspring, one of one's progeny.
4. A childish or stupid individual.
5. (Chrisitanity) The Christ child; Jesus as a child.
6. (figuratively) A member of a creed (usually with the religion in the genitive preposing it)
7. A young male, especially one employed as an hireling.
8. A young noble training to become a knight; a squire or childe.
9. The young of animals or plants.
10. A material as a result or outcome.

Related terms

Descendants

• English: child
• Scots: child; chield

References

• “ch?ld, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-23.

English

Etymology

From Latin ?mancip?tus, past participle of ?mancip? (“to declare (a son) free and independent of the father's power by the thrice-repeated act of mancip?ti? and manumissi?, give from one's own power or authority into that of another, give up, surrender”), from ? (“out”) + mancip? (“to transfer ownership in”), from manceps (“purchaser, a contractor, literally, one who takes in hand”), from manus (“hand”) + capi? (“to take”). See manual, and capable.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??mæns?pe?t/

Verb

emancipate (third-person singular simple present emancipates, present participle emancipating, simple past and past participle emancipated)

1. To set free from the power of another; to liberate; as:
   1. To set free, as a minor from a parent

   2. To set free from bondage; to give freedom to; to manumit

2. To free from any controlling influence, especially from anything which exerts undue or evil influence
   • 1699, John Evelyn, Acetaria: A Discourse of Sallets

     From how many troublesome and slavish impertinences […] he had emancipated and freed himself.

   • 1879, Adolphus Ward, Chaucer, in English Men of Letters

     to emancipate the human conscience

   • 1980, Bob Marley, Redemption Song

     Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds.

Synonyms

• liberate
• manumit

Derived terms

• emancipatory
• emancipatrix

Related terms

• emancipation
• emancipator
• emancipist

Translations

Adjective

emancipate (comparative more emancipate, superlative most emancipate)

1. Freed; set at liberty.

Further reading

• emancipate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• emancipate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Italian

Adjective

emancipate

1. feminine plural of emancipato

Verb

emancipate

1. second-person plural present indicative of emancipare
2. second-person plural imperative of emancipare
3. feminine plural of emancipato

Latin

Verb

?mancip?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of ?mancip?