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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”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɪˈleɪt/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- 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.
- Synonyms: cheer up, hearten; see also Thesaurus:gladden
- 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.
Derived terms
Translations
to make joyful or proud
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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, 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
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:elate.
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Estonian
Verb
elate
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): [eːˈɫaː.teː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [eˈlaː.t̪e]
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.
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Etymology 2
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐλάτη (elátē).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈɛ.ɫa.teː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈɛː.la.t̪e]
Noun
elatē f (genitive elatēs); first declension
Declension
First-declension noun (Greek-type).
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.
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Middle English
Adjective
elate
- alternative form of elat
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