Emigrate
/ˈɛm.ɪ.ɡreɪt/noun
To leave one's country or region to live elsewhere.
Did you know?Emigrate and immigrant come from the same Latin root, but English split them into opposite directions: one leaves, the other enters—like a linguistic threshold spell.
Etymological Timeline
Latin
Latin
emigrāre
“to move out, depart from a place”
Latin
Latin
e- / ex- + migrāre
“out of + to move from place to place”
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*mei-
“to change, go, move”
16th Century
English
emigrate
“to remove or migrate out of a country or place”
Modern English
English
emigrate
“to leave one country to settle in another”
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