The story
- Latin · derived fromaemulor“to rival, emulate”
- Latin · borrowed fromaemulātus
- English todayemulate
First attested in 1586; borrowed from Latin aemulātus, perfect active participle of Latin aemulor (“to rival, emulate”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.