Latin

Noun

aemulātiō f ‎(genitive aemulātiōnis); third declension

1. The endeavor to be equal to or match another in something; emulation, ambition; rivalry, competition.
2. Jealousy, envy, malevolence.

Inflection

Third declension.

Synonyms

• (emulation): aemulātus, certāmen, zēlus
• (rivalry): aemulātus, certāmen, competītiō
• (jealousy): invidentia, invidia, simultās, zēlotypia, zēlus

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Descendants

References

• aemulatio in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• aemulatio in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “aemulatio”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the word aemulatio is employed with two meanings, in a good and a bad sense: aemulatio dupliciter dicitur, ut et in laude et in vitio hoc nomen sit