elate

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”).

• IPA^(key): /ɪˈleɪt/
• Rhymes: -eɪt

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

1. (transitive) To make joyful or proud.
2. (transitive) To lift up; raise; elevate.

elate

1. elated; exultant
   • Alexander Pope

     O, thoughtless mortals! ever blind to fate, / Too soon dejected, and dejected, and too soon elate.

   • Mrs. H. H. Jackson

     Our nineteenth century is wonderfully set up in its own esteem, wonderfully elate at its progress.

2. (obsolete) Lifted up; raised; elevated.
   • Fenton

     with upper lip elate

   • Sir W. Jones

     And sovereign law, that State's collected will, / O'er thrones and globes, elate, / Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill.

• For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:elate.

• Atlee, alete, telae

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”).

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

ēlātē (comparative ēlātus or ēlātius, no superlative)

1. loftily, proudly
   • Introit adulescens et praefatur arrogantius et elatius, quam aetati eius decebat, ac deinde iubet exponi controversias.Gellius: Noctes Atticae, Book 9, Chapter 15, Verse 4

     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.

• ēlātiō
• ēlātus

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐλάτη (elátē).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈe.la.teː/, [ˈɛ.ɫa.teː]

elatē f (genitive elatēs); first declension

1. A sort of fir
2. The leaf of the palm bud

First declension, Greek type.

• 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

elate

1. Alternative form of elat