Emended

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. Altered by making corrections or improvements to fix errors or faults
2. Modified through editing to enhance accuracy or clarity
3. Revised by adjusting content to correct mistakes or inaccuracies

Etymology: "Emended" is the past tense of "emend", which in turn came into Middle English from Latin "emendare", built from "ex-" meaning "out" and "mendum", meaning "fault" or "blemish". The Latin sense was literally "to free from fault," so the verb began as a idea of cleansing a text of its errors rather than simply tidying it up. "Emend" and "amend" are doublets: two English words that descend from the same Latin source by different routes. "Amend" arrived through Old French, which softened the Latin prefix, while "emend" came more directly from Latin, keeping the original "ex-" intact. Over time the two drifted apart in use, with "amend" taking on wider senses such as correcting laws or improving behavior, and "emend" settling into the specialized work of correcting written texts.

Synonyms: corrected, revised, edited