elate

English

Etymology

From Middle English elat, elate, from Latin ēlātus (“exalted, lofty”), perfect passive participle of efferō (“bring forth or out; raise; exalt”), from ē (“out of”) (short form of ex) + ferō (“carry, bear”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɪˈleɪt/
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Rhymes: -eɪt

Verb

elate (third-person singular simple present elates, present participle elating, simple past and past participle elated)

(transitive) To make joyful or proud.
- 1749, The Universal Magazine (volume 4, page 321)
  That happy minute would elate me, / End all my sorrow, grief, and cares; / Then do not frown, altho' you hate me, / But smile and dissipate my fears: […]
(transitive) To lift up; raise; elevate.

Translations

to make joyful or proud

Bulgarian: въодушевявам (bg) (vǎoduševjavam)
Czech: udělat radost pf, zvednout náladu pf
Dutch: verrukken (nl), aanvuren (nl)
Ido: gayigar (io), exaltar (io)
Romanian: exalta (ro)
Russian: поднимать настроение impf (podnimatʹ nastrojenije), подбодрить (ru) pf (podbodritʹ)

to lift up, raise, elevate

Bulgarian: ободрявам (bg) (obodrjavam)
Czech: povznést pf, pozdvihnout pf, pozvednout pf
Dutch: oplaten (nl)
Latin: levō, ēlevō
Maori: whakamanamana
Romanian: ridica (ro), înălța (ro)

Adjective

elate

Elated; exultant.
- 1714, Alexander Pope, “The Rape of the Lock”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], published 1717, OCLC 43265629, canto III:
  Oh thoughtless Mortals! ever blind to Fate,
  Too soon dejected, and dejected, and too soon elate.
- 1895, Helen Hunt Jackson, The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume 28
  Our nineteenth century is wonderfully set up in its own esteem, wonderfully elate at its progress.
(obsolete) Lifted up; raised; elevated.
- c. 1707, Elijah Fenton, a letter to the Knight of the Sable Shield
  with upper lip elate
- a. 1794, William Jones, an ode in imitation of Alcaeus
  And sovereign law, that State's collected will, / O'er thrones and globes, elate, / Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:elate.

Related terms

elated
elation
efferent

Anagrams

Atlee, Teela, alete, telae

Estonian

Verb

elate

second-person plural present indicative of elama

Latin

Etymology 1

From ēlātus (“exalted, lofty”), perfect passive participle of efferō (“bring forth or out; raise; exalt”), from ē (“out of”), short form of ex, + ferō (“carry, bear”).

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /eːˈlaː.teː/, [eːˈɫ̪äːt̪eː]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /eˈla.te/, [eˈläːt̪e]

Adverb

ēlātē (comparative ēlātus or ēlātius, no superlative)

loftily, proudly
- c. 177, Gellius: Noctes Atticae, Book 9, Chapter 15, Verse 4
  Introit adulescens et praefatur arrogantius et elatius, quam aetati eius decebat, ac deinde iubet exponi controversias.
  The young fellow entered the room, made some preliminary remarks in a more arrogant and presumptuous style than became his years, and then asked that subjects for debate be given him.

Related terms

ēlātiō
ēlātus

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐλάτη (elátē).

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈe.la.teː/, [ˈɛɫ̪ät̪eː]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈe.la.te/, [ˈɛːlät̪e]

Noun

elatē f (genitive elatēs); first declension

A sort of fir
The leaf of the palm bud

Declension

First-declension noun (Greek-type).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	elatē	elatae
Genitive	elatēs	elatārum
Dative	elatae	elatīs
Accusative	elatēn	elatās
Ablative	elatē	elatīs
Vocative	elatē	elatae

References

“elate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“elate”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
elate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

Middle English

Adjective

elate

Alternative form of elat