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elate
English
Etymology
From Middle English elat, elate, from Latin ?l?tus (“exalted, lofty”), perfect passive participle of effer? (“bring forth or out; raise; exalt”), from ? (“out of”) (short form of ex) + fer? (“carry, bear”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??le?t/
- Rhymes: -e?t
Verb
elate (third-person singular simple present elates, present participle elating, simple past and past participle elated)
- (transitive) To make joyful or proud.
- (transitive) To lift up; raise; elevate.
Translations
Adjective
elate
- elated; exultant
- 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.
- 1895, Helen Hunt Jackson, The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume 28
- (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.
- c. 1707, Elijah Fenton, a letter to the Knight of the Sable Shield
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:elate.
Related terms
- elated
- elation
- efferent
Anagrams
- Atlee, Teela, alete, telae
Estonian
Verb
elate
- second-person plural present indicative of elama
Latin
Etymology 1
From ?l?tus (“exalted, lofty”), perfect passive participle of effer? (“bring forth or out; raise; exalt”), from ? (“out of”), short form of ex, + fer? (“carry, bear”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /e??la?.te?/, [e????ä?t?e?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /e?la.te/, [??l??t??]
Adverb
?l?t? (comparative ?l?tus or ?l?tius, no superlative)
- 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.
- Introit adulescens et praefatur arrogantius et elatius, quam aetati eius decebat, ac deinde iubet exponi controversias.
- c. 177, Gellius: Noctes Atticae, Book 9, Chapter 15, Verse 4
Related terms
- ?l?ti?
- ?l?tus
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ????? (elát?).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?e.la.te?/, [????ät?e?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?e.la.te/, [???l?t??]
Noun
elat? f (genitive elat?s); first declension
- A sort of fir
- The leaf of the palm bud
Declension
First-declension noun (Greek-type).
References
- 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
Middle English
Adjective
elate
- Alternative form of elat
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buoy
English
Etymology
From Middle English boy, boye, from Middle Dutch boeye (“float, buoy”), perhaps a special use of Middle Dutch boeye (“shackle, fetter”), from Old French buie (“fetter, chain”) (compare modern bouée), probably from Frankish *baukn, or alternatively from Latin boia (“a (leather) collar, band, fetter”), from Ancient Greek ????? (bóeos), ?????? (bóeios, “of ox-hide”), from ???? (boûs, “ox”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?ow- (“cow”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, Canada) IPA(key): /?b??/
- Homophone: boy
- (General American) IPA(key): /?bu.i/, /?b??/
- Rhymes: -u?i, -??
- (obsolete) IPA(key): /?bw??/
Noun
buoy (plural buoys)
- (nautical) A float moored in water to mark a location, warn of danger, or indicate a navigational channel.
- A life-buoy; a life preserver.
Derived terms
- lifebuoy
- light buoy
- mooring buoy
- buoyant
- buoyancy
Translations
Verb
buoy (third-person singular simple present buoys, present participle buoying, simple past and past participle buoyed)
- (transitive) To keep afloat or aloft; used with up.
- (transitive) To support or maintain at a high level.
- (transitive) To mark with a buoy.
- to buoy an anchor; to buoy or buoy off a channel
- 1839, Charles Darwin, Journal of Researches into the Geology and Natural History of the Various Countries Visited by H.M.S. Beagle, London: Henry Colburn, Chapter 13, p. 303,[1]
- Not one rock near the surface was discovered which was not buoyed by this floating weed.
- To maintain or enhance enthusiasm or confidence; to lift the spirits of.
- 2013, Daniel Taylor, Danny Welbeck leads England's rout of Moldova but hit by Ukraine ban (in The Guardian, 6 September 2013)[2]
- It ended up being a bittersweet night for England, full of goals to send the crowd home happy, buoyed by the news that Montenegro and Poland had drawn elsewhere in Group H but also with a measure of regret about what happened to Danny Welbeck and what it means for Roy Hodgson's team going into a much more difficult assignment against Ukraine.
- Buoyed by the huge success, they announced two other projects.
- 2013, Daniel Taylor, Danny Welbeck leads England's rout of Moldova but hit by Ukraine ban (in The Guardian, 6 September 2013)[2]
Derived terms
- buoy up
Translations
Derived terms
- buoy up
- can buoy
- conical buoy
- bell buoy
- ring buoy
- life buoy
- breeches buoy
Anagrams
- buyo
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