elevate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs
Proto-Italic *eks
Latin ex
Latin ex-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁lengʷʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *-us
Proto-Indo-European *h₁léngʰusder.
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Proto-Italic *breɣʷisinflu.?
Proto-Italic *leɣʷis
Latin levis
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin levō
Latin ēlevō
Latin ēlevātusder.
Middle English elevat
Proto-Indo-European *-o-
Proto-Indo-European *-nom
Proto-Indo-European *-onom
Proto-Germanic *-aną
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
Proto-Germanic *-janą
Old English -an
Middle English -en
Middle English elevaten
English elevate
From Middle English elevaten (“to raise up, erect; to elate, inflate (e.g. with pride); (alchemy) to vaporize; (of a bone, excressence, blood vessel) to protrude”), from elevat(e) (“(in physical elevation, in rank, in altitude above the horizon) high”, also used as the past participle of elevaten) + -en (verb-forming suffix), further from Latin ēlevātus, the perfect passive participle of ēlevō (“to raise, lift up”), from ē- (“out”) + levō (“to make light, to lift”), from levis (“light”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix); see levity and lever.
Base: elevat
Affixes: -en
Inflected forms:
form: elevates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: elevating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: elevated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: elevated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To raise (something) to a higher position.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The doctor told me elevating my legs would help reduce the swelling.
The Grace or Blessynge of the table to be sayed of chyldren standynge before it, thyr handes eleuated and ioyned to gyder
She had one eye declined for the loss of her husband, another elevated that the oracle was fulfilled: […]
1750, Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, No. 25, 12 June, 1750, Volume 1, London: J. Payne and J. Bouquet, 1752, p. 216,
We know that a few strokes of the axe will lop a cedar; but what arts of cultivation can elevate a shrub?
Abdulla expressed his surprise by elevating his eyebrows.
gloss: To promote (someone) to a higher rank.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Hard Fate of Greatness, We so highly Elevated
Are more expos’d to Censure than the little ones,
Nothing can set the regal character in a more contemptible point of view, than the various crimes that have elevated men to the supreme dignity.
[…] that’s the way things go when you elevate mediocre people to positions of authority.
Much has also been made recently of the distorting effects exerted on the administration of Urban VIII by the interests of the Barberini nephews, especially of the two elevated to cardinal status.
At that point, you have to elevate the account's rights, activate the feature, and then demote the account again.
gloss: To promote (someone) to a higher rank.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Did you forget that all programs that modify the registry need to be elevated?
gloss: To confer honor or nobility on (someone).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The traditional worldview elevates man as the pinnacle of creation.
For loftie type of honour through the glaunce
Of enuies dart, is downe in dust prostrate;
gloss: To make (something or someone) more worthy or of greater value.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: A talented chef can elevate everyday ingredients into gourmet delights.
[…] if you encourage a young Beginner, who knows but he may elevate his stile a little,
He is the true artist, who copies nature; but, where he finds her mean, elevates her from his own ideas of beauty.
You can’t think how it elevates him in my opinion, to know for certain that he’s really conscientious!
gloss: To direct (the mind, thoughts, etc.) toward more worthy things.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: […] the devout Christian improves the Blessings he receives of this inferiour World, to elevate his mind above it:
On the whole I would regard serious art as a means to elevate the emotions and educate the spirit […]
gloss: To increase the intensity or degree of (something).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Some drugs have the side effect of elevating your blood sugar level.
gloss: To increase the intensity or degree of (something).
pos: verb
tags: dated
transitive
examples: […] the Uncle had more than once elevated his Voice, so as to be heard down Stairs;
“We’ll see to that,” Wolf Larsen answered, and elevated his voice in a call of “Cooky!”
gloss: To lift the spirits of (someone)
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: […] Hope elevates, and joy
Bright’ns his Crest,
1759, Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Edinburgh: A. Kincaid and J. Bell, Part 1, Section 2, Chapter 1, p. 20,
It gives us the spleen […] to see another too happy or too much elevated, as we call it, with any little piece of good fortune.
gloss: To intoxicate in a slight degree; to make (someone) tipsy.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
dated
humorous
examples: Steele entertained them till he was tipsy; when the same wine that stupified him, only served to elevate Addison, who took up the ball just as Steele dropt it, and kept it up for the rest of the evening.
[Johnson,] from drinking only water, supposed every body who drank wine to be elevated
[…] the elevated Cavaliers […] sent to Roger Raine of the Peveril Arms […] for two tubs of merry stingo
gloss: To attempt to make (something) seem less important, remarkable, etc.
pos: verb
tags: Latinism
obsolete
examples: 1660, Jeremy Taylor, Ductor Dubitantium, London: Richard Royston, Volume 1, Chapter 4, Rule 2, p. 126,
[…] the Arabian Physicians […] endevour to elevate and lessen the thing [i.e. belief in the virgin birth of Jesus], by saying, It is not wholly beyond the force of nature, that a Virgin should conceive […]
Related words: elevatable
elevation
elevator
elevatory
Derived words: elevatingly
re-elevate
superelevate
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: رفع
lang: Azerbaijani
word: ucaltmaq
lang: Azerbaijani
word: yüksəltmək
lang: Bulgarian
word: издигам
roman: izdigam
lang: Esperanto
word: levi
lang: Esperanto
word: altigi
lang: Esperanto
word: plialtigi
lang: Estonian
word: tõstma
lang: Finnish
word: nostaa
lang: Finnish
word: kohottaa
lang: French
word: élever
lang: German
word: erhöhen
lang: German
word: anheben
lang: Gothic
word: 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐌷𐌾𐌰𐌽
roman: hauhjan
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ὑψόω
roman: hupsóō
lang: Hungarian
word: emel
lang: Icelandic
word: hækka
lang: Irish
word: ardaigh
lang: Italian
word: elevare
lang: Latin
word: levo
lang: Latin
word: elevo
lang: Latin
word: extollō
lang: Northern Mansi
word: а̄лмаяӈкве
roman: ālmaâňkve
lang: Northern Mansi
word: а̄лмуӈкве
roman: ālmuňkve
lang: Māori
word: whakatairanga
lang: Māori
word: kōranga
lang: Māori
word: whakateitei
lang: Old English
word: āhebban
lang: Polish
word: podnosić
lang: Polish
word: podnieść
lang: Polish
word: wynosić
lang: Polish
word: wynieść
lang: Portuguese
word: elevar
lang: Russian
word: поднима́ть
roman: podnimátʹ
lang: Russian
word: подня́ть
roman: podnjátʹ
lang: Sanskrit
word: रोपयति
roman: ropayati
lang: Spanish
word: elevar
lang: Spanish
word: levantar
lang: Spanish
word: subir
lang: Ugaritic
word: 𐎐𐎌𐎀
roman: nšả
lang: Bulgarian
word: повишавам
roman: povišavam
lang: Esperanto
word: pligrandigi
lang: Esperanto
word: plialtigi
lang: French
word: augmenter
lang: German
word: erhöhen
lang: Italian
word: aumentare
lang: Polish
word: podwyższać
lang: Polish
word: podwyższyć
lang: Polish
word: ulepszać
lang: Polish
word: ulepszyć
lang: Polish
word: zwiększać
lang: Polish
word: zwiększyć
lang: Spanish
word: subir