elevation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
architecture
astronomy
natural-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.
▲
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
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin ēlevātiō
Old French elevation
English elevation
From Old French elevation, from Latin elevatio, equal to elevate + -ion.
Base: elevate
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: elevations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of raising from a lower place, condition, or quality to a higher; said of material things, persons, the mind, the voice, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: elevation to a throne
elevation to sainthood
elevation of mind, thoughts, or character
gloss: The condition of being or feeling elevated; heightened; exaltation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: That which is raised up or elevated; an elevated place or station.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A hill is an elevation of the ground.
Since our sins caused God's presence to withdraw above the "seven heavens," we pray that our prayers may rise through the seven layers and reach the Almighty in the eighth elevation.
gloss: The distance of a celestial object above the horizon, or the arc of a vertical circle intercepted between it and the horizon; altitude.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the elevation of the pole, or of a star
gloss: The measured vertical distance from the peak of a mountain or hill to its bordering lowlands.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The angle which the gnomon makes with the substylar line.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The movement of the axis of a piece in a vertical plane; also, the angle of elevation, that is, the angle between the axis of the piece and the line of sight; distinguished from direction.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A geometrical projection of a building, or other object, on a plane perpendicular to the horizon; orthographic projection on a vertical plane; called by the ancients the orthography.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The raising of the host—representing Christ’s body—in a mass or Holy Communion service.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An opium mixture used in the Fens to improve the mood and prevent malaria.
pos: noun
tags: UK
obsolete
uncountable
examples: […] many of the fen people used what they called "elevation." Farmer Porter was his informant concerning this habit. "What's elevation?" "Oh! ho! ho! — yow goo into druggist's shop o' market day into Cambridge, and you'll see the little boxes, doozens and doozens, a' ready on the counter; and never a ven-man's wife goo by, but what calls in for her pennord o' elevation, to last her out the week. […]
Antonyms: disgust
demotion
depression
diminishment
reduction
Related words: elevate
elevator
overelevation
fasl
masl
Derived words: angle of elevation
Arkansas elevation
boiling-point elevation
dextroelevation
elevational
laevoelevation
paleoelevation
self-elevation
ST elevation
superelevation
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: възвишеност
roman: vǎzvišenost
lang: Finnish
word: noste
lang: Finnish
word: nousu
lang: French
word: élévation
lang: German
word: Erhebung
lang: Irish
word: ardú
lang: Quechua
word: huqari
lang: Sanskrit
word: ऊर्ध्व
roman: ūrdhva
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: àrdachadh
lang: Ukrainian
word: підне́сення
roman: pidnésennja