elate

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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)

  1. (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: […]
  2. (transitive) To lift up; raise; elevate.

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Adjective

elate

  1. Elated; exultant.
    • 1714, Alexander Pope, “The Rape of the Lock”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume I, London: W Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, , published 1717, →OCLC, 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.
  2. (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.

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Estonian

Verb

elate

  1. 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

Adverb

ēlātē (comparative ēlātus or ēlātius, no superlative)

  1. 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.
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Etymology 2

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐλάτη (elátē).

Pronunciation

Noun

elatē f (genitive elatēs); first declension

  1. A sort of fir
  2. 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

  1. Alternative form of elat
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