emend

/imend/

  • verb correct and revise (a text).

  — DERIVATIVES emendation noun.

  — USAGE The words emend and amend both derive from Latin emendare ‘to correct’ and have similar, but not identical, meanings in English. Emend means ‘correct and revise (a text)’, while amend means ‘make minor improvements to (a document, rule, or proposal)’.

  — ORIGIN Latin emendare, from menda ‘a fault’.

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