## Meanings
1. To copy or imitate someone, especially because you admire them.
2. To try to match or do as well as someone or something.
3. Of a computer or program, to imitate the function of another system.

## Examples
- Young players try to emulate their football heroes.
- The new firm hoped to emulate the success of its rivals.
- This software can emulate an older operating system.

## Derived Forms
- emulable
- emulatable
- emulation
- emulative
- emulator
- emulatory
- unemulated

## Related Forms
- emulation
- emulative
- emulator
- emulous
- simulate

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: aemulor

## Etymology
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).

## AI Etymology
Emulate is 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). Important recorded forms include aemulor (Latin). Current senses include to copy or imitate someone, especially because you admire them and to try to match or do as well as someone or something. The wider family includes derived forms such as emulable, emulatable, emulation, emulative, and emulator; related words such as emulation, emulative, emulator, and emulous.

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