elate

English

Etymology

From Middle English elat, elate, from Latin ēlātus (“exalted, lofty”), perfect passive participle of efferō (“bring forth or out; raise; exalt”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).

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.

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

1. 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, 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.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:elate.

Related terms

• elated
• elation
• efferent

Anagrams

• Atlee, Teela, alete, telae

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /eːˈlaː.teː/, [eːˈɫ̪äːt̪eː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /eˈla.te/, [eˈläːt̪e]

Adverb

ēlātē (comparative ēlātus or ēlātius, no superlative)

1. loftily, proudly
   • c. 177, Gellius: Noctes Atticae, Book 9, Chapter 15, Verse 4‎^[1]:

     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 Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈe.la.teː/, [ˈɛɫ̪ät̪eː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈe.la.te/, [ˈɛːlät̪e]

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).

	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