# elevar
## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ēlevāre (“to raise”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [ə.ləˈβa]
* IPA: (Balearic) [ə.ləˈva]
* IPA: (Valencia) [e.leˈvaɾ]
* Audio (Catalonia):(file)
* Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

### Verb

elevar (first-person singular present elevo, first-person singular preterite eleví, past participle elevat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /e/
* to elevate, raise, raise up
* (pronomial) to go up, rise

#### Related terms

* elevació

### Further reading

* “elevar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “elevar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “elevar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “elevar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Noun

elevar m
* indefinite plural of elev

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin ēlevāre (“to raise”).

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /e.leˈva(ʁ)/ [e.leˈva(h)]
* (Brazil) IPA: /e.leˈva(ʁ)/ [e.leˈva(h)]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /e.leˈva(ɾ)/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /e.leˈva(ʁ)/ [e.leˈva(χ)]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /e.leˈva(ɻ)/
* (Portugal) IPA: /i.lɨˈvaɾ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /i.lɨˈvaɾ/
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /i.lɨˈbaɾ/ [i.lɨˈβaɾ]
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /i.lɨˈva.ɾi/
* Hyphenation: e‧le‧var

### Verb

elevar (first-person singular present elevo, first-person singular preterite elevei, past participle elevado)
* to raise; to lift (to bring or take upwards)
    Synonyms: alçar, alcear, erguer, içar, levantar
    Antonym: baixar
* to increase (to make a value or quantity larger)
    Synonym: aumentar
    Antonym: diminuir
* (figurative) to put on a pedestal (to hold in very high esteem)
* (reflexive) to tower over; to loom over

#### Conjugation

$^1$Brazilian Portuguese. $^2$European Portuguese.

#### Related terms

* elevação
* elevadamente
* elevadiço
* elevado
* elevador
* elevamento

## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ēlevāre (“to raise”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /eleˈbaɾ/ [e.leˈβ̞aɾ]
* Rhymes: -aɾ
* Syllabification: e‧le‧var

### Verb

elevar (first-person singular present elevo, first-person singular preterite elevé, past participle elevado)
* to elevate
* to raise; lift up
** 2020 October 11, Alejandro Ciriza, El País‎:Rafael Nadal eleva, con mascarilla, su 13ª Copa de los Mosqueteros en un ambiente que nada tiene que ver con el de otras ocasiones.Rafael Nadal, wearing a mask, lifts up his 13th Musketeers' Trophy in at atmosphere nothing like any other times.
* (mathematics) to raise (a number) (to a power)

#### Conjugation

$^1$Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language. $^2$Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.

#### Derived terms

* elevalunas
* elevamiento
* elevar al cuadrado
* elevavidrios

#### Related terms

* elevación
* elevador

### Further reading

* “elevar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10