# 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: /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

* elatement
* elater
* unelating

#### Translations
### 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.

#### Quotations

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

#### Related terms

* elated
* elation
* efferent

### Anagrams

* Atlee, Teela, alete, telae

## Estonian
### Verb

elate
* 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: /eːˈlaː.teː/, [eːˈɫ̪äːt̪eː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /eˈla.te/, [eˈläːt̪e]

#### 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.

##### Related terms

* ēlātiō
* ēlātus

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐλάτη (elátē).

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈe.la.teː/, [ˈɛɫ̪ät̪eː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈe.la.te/, [ˈɛːlät̪e]

#### Noun

elatē f (genitive elatēs); first declension
* A sort of fir
* The leaf of the palm bud

##### 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.

## Middle English
### Adjective

elate
* Alternative form of elat