emigrare

to emigrate

verb eh-mee-GRAH-reh Rare

Origin: From Latin emigrare, from e- (out) + migrare (to move).

Usage Note

Emigrare means to leave one's country to settle elsewhere; immigrare is the opposite (to arrive). It takes essere as its auxiliary in compound tenses: è emigrato in America (he emigrated to America). The noun is emigrazione (emigration) and the agent noun emigrante (emigrant).

Examples

"Molti italiani emigrarono in America nel Novecento."

Natural Translation

Many Italians emigrated to America in the twentieth century.

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