elate
English edit
Etymology edit
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 edit
Verb edit
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 edit
to make joyful or proud
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to lift up, raise, elevate
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Adjective edit
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, 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.
- c. 1707, Elijah Fenton, a letter to the Knight of the Sable Shield
Quotations edit
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:elate.
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Verb edit
elate
Latin edit
Etymology 1 edit
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 edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /eːˈlaː.teː/, [eːˈɫ̪äːt̪eː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /eˈla.te/, [eˈläːt̪e]
Adverb edit
ēlātē (comparative ēlātus or ēlātius, no superlative)
- 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.
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Etymology 2 edit
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐλάτη (elátē).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈe.la.teː/, [ˈɛɫ̪ät̪eː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈe.la.te/, [ˈɛːlät̪e]
Noun edit
elatē f (genitive elatēs); first declension
Declension edit
First-declension noun (Greek-type).
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | elatē | elatae |
Genitive | elatēs | elatārum |
Dative | elatae | elatīs |
Accusative | elatēn | elatās |
Ablative | elatē | elatīs |
Vocative | elatē | elatae |
References edit
- “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 edit
Adjective edit
elate
- Alternative form of elat