elateとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ɪˈleɪt/
• 韻: -eɪt

動詞

elate (third-person singular simple present elates, present participle elating, simple past and past participle elated)

1. (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: […]

2. (transitive) To lift up; raise; elevate.

派生語

形容詞

elate

1. 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.

2. (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.

引用

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

関連する語

• elated
• elation
• efferent

アナグラム

• Atlee, Teela, alete, telae

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [eːˈɫaː.teː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [eˈlaː.t̪e]

副詞

ēlātē (comparative ēlātus or ēlātius, no superlative)

1. 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.

関連する語

• ēlātiō
• ēlātus

語源 2

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐλάτη (elátē).

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈɛ.ɫa.teː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈɛː.la.t̪e]

名詞

elatē f (genitive elatēs); first declension

1. A sort of fir
2. The leaf of the palm bud

語形変化

First-declension noun (Greek-type).

参照

• “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.