different between emulous vs emulate

English

Alternative forms

• æmulous (archaic)

Etymology

From Latin aemulus (“striving to equal or excel, rivaling; in a bad sense, envious, jealous”), from Ancient Greek ?????????? (hamilláomai, “strive, contend”), akin to Latin imitari (“to imitate”); see imitate.

Adjective

emulous (comparative more emulous, superlative most emulous)

1. Ambitious or competitive.
   • 1859, George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, Chapter 1:

     A dozen 'emulous oung persons in, or just out of, pinafores, swift-runners, had taken the field.

Related terms

• emulate
• emulation

Derived terms

Further reading

• emulous in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• emulous in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “emulous”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

English

Alternative forms

• æmulate (archaic)

Etymology

From Latin aemulor (“to rival, emulate”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??m.j?.le?t/
• Hyphenation: em?u?late

Verb

emulate (third-person singular simple present emulates, present participle emulating, simple past and past participle emulated)

1. (now rare) To attempt to equal or be the same as.
2. To copy or imitate, especially a person.
3. (obsolete) To feel a rivalry with; to be jealous of, to envy.
   • 1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, in Kupperman 1988, p. 146:

     But the councell then present emulating my successe, would not thinke it fit to spare me fortie men to be hazzarded in those unknowne regions [...].

4. (computing) of a program or device: to imitate another program or device

Related terms

• emulation
• emulator
• emulous

Translations

Adjective

emulate (comparative more emulate, superlative most emulate)

1. (obsolete) Striving to excel; ambitious; emulous.

See also

• mimic
• copy
• imitate
• simulate

Anagrams

• metulae

Italian

Verb

emulate

1. second-person plural present indicative of emulare
2. second-person plural imperative of emulare
3. feminine plural of emulato