elevate

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

• /ˈɛləvət/
  Play
• /ˈɛləveɪt/
  Play
• Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  Play
• CMU ARPABET: EH1 L AH0 V EY2 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
  Play

From Middle English elevat(e) (“(in physical elevation, in rank, in altitude above the horizon) high”, also used as the past participle of elevaten), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more. Cognate with French élevé.

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-Indo-European *-h2tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō 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.

59 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: رفع — raise
• Azerbaijani: ucaltmaq — raise
• Azerbaijani: yüksəltmək — raise
• Bulgarian: издигам (izdigam) — raise
• Esperanto: levi — raise
• Esperanto: altigi — raise
• Esperanto: plialtigi — raise
• Estonian: tõstma — raise
• Finnish: nostaa — raise
• Finnish: kohottaa — raise
• French: élever — raise
• German: erhöhen — raise
• German: anheben — raise
• Gothic: 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐌷𐌾𐌰𐌽 (hauhjan) — raise
• Ancient Greek: ὑψόω (hupsóō) — raise
• Hungarian: emel — raise
• Icelandic: hækka — raise
• Irish: ardaigh — raise
• Italian: elevare — raise
• Latin: levo — raise
• Latin: elevo — raise
• Latin: extollō — raise
• Northern Mansi: а̄лмаяӈкве (ālmaâňkve) — raise
• Northern Mansi: а̄лмуӈкве (ālmuňkve) — raise
• Māori: whakatairanga — raise
• Māori: kōranga — raise
• Māori: whakateitei — raise
• Old English: āhebban — raise
• Polish: podnosić — raise
• Polish: podnieść — raise
• Polish: wynosić — raise
• Polish: wynieść — raise
• Portuguese: elevar — raise
• Russian: поднима́ть (podnimátʹ) — raise
• Russian: подня́ть (podnjátʹ) — raise
• Sanskrit: रोपयति (ropayati) — raise
• Spanish: elevar — raise
• Spanish: levantar — raise
• Spanish: subir — raise
• Ugaritic: 𐎐𐎌𐎀 (nšả) — raise
• Bulgarian: въздигам (vǎzdigam) — elate
• Esperanto: ĝojigi — elate
• Polish: dodawać otuchy — elate
• Polish: dodać otuchy — elate
• Polish: podnosić na duchu — elate
• Polish: podnieść na duchu — elate
• Bulgarian: повишавам (povišavam) — increase the intensity of
• Esperanto: pligrandigi — increase the intensity of
• Esperanto: plialtigi — increase the intensity of
• French: augmenter — increase the intensity of
• German: erhöhen — increase the intensity of
• Italian: aumentare — increase the intensity of
• Polish: podwyższać — increase the intensity of
• Polish: podwyższyć — increase the intensity of
• Polish: ulepszać — increase the intensity of
• Polish: ulepszyć — increase the intensity of
• Polish: zwiększać — increase the intensity of
• Polish: zwiększyć — increase the intensity of
• Spanish: subir — increase the intensity of