different between migratory vs emigrate

English

Pronunciation

• (Canada, US) IPA^(key): /?ma?.????t?.?i/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?ma????e?.t?.?i/

Adjective

migratory (not comparable)

1. (of birds, etc) Migrating.
2. Roving; wandering; nomadic.

   migratory habits; a migratory life

Antonyms

• sedentary

Derived terms

• migratory bird
• nonmigratory, non-migratory

Related terms

• migration

Translations

English

Etymology

From Latin emigratus, past participle of emigrare (“to move away, remove, depart from a place”), from e (“out”) + migrare (“to move, remove, depart”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: ??m?.gr?t'
• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /??m???e?t/
• (pin–pen merger) IPA^(key): /??m???e?t/
• Homophone: immigrate (accents with pin-pen merger)
• Hyphenation: em?i?grate

Verb

emigrate (third-person singular simple present emigrates, present participle emigrating, simple past and past participle emigrated)

1. (intransitive) To leave the country in which one lives, especially one's native country, in order to reside elsewhere.
   • 1872, John Henry Newman, Historical Sketches

     They [the Huns] were emigrating from Tartary into Europe in the time of the Goths.

Antonyms

• immigrate

Related terms

• emigrant
• emigration
• émigré
• immigrant
• immigrate
• immigration
• migrate
• migration
• migratory

Translations

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• Meritage, graemite

Italian

Adjective

emigrate f pl

1. feminine plural of emigrato

Noun

emigrate f

1. plural of emigrata

Verb

emigrate

1. second-person plural present indicative of emigrare
2. second-person plural imperative of emigrare
3. feminine plural past participle of emigrato

Anagrams

• mergiate, regimate, remigate

Latin

Verb

?migr?te

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