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🇮🇹Italian Source WordCode: IT

emancipare

Pronunciation / Transliteration: e-man-ʧi-ˈpa-re

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Emancipate/ɪˈmæn.sɪ.peɪt/
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🇮🇹 Example Sentence in Italian:

"La rivoluzione ha cercato di emancipare i cittadini oppressi."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As verb
  1. 1

    To set free, especially from legal, social, or political restrictions.

    "The historic decree sought to emancipate the enslaved population and guarantee their basic human rights."
  2. 2

    To free someone from traditional social or religious constraints.

    "Modern education helped emancipate women from centuries of restrictive domestic expectations."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin 'emancipatus', the past participle of 'emancipare', meaning to transfer ownership of a son or slave from the 'patria potestas' (father's power). By the 17th century, the term evolved from legal property emancipation to broad liberation from political, social, or intellectual bondage.

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