elatio

Latin

Etymology

From ēlātus, perfect passive participle of efferō (“bring forth or out; rise; exalt”), from ē (“out of”), short form of ex, + ferō (“carry, bear”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /eːˈlaː.ti.oː/, [eːˈɫ̪äːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /eˈlat.t͡si.o/, [eˈlät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

ēlātiō f (genitive ēlātiōnis); third declension

1. The act of carrying out; carrying to a grave, burial.
2. The act of lifting or raising up, elevation.
3. (figuratively) The state of being carried away or hurried along; transport; passion.
4. (figuratively) Exaltation, elevation, glorification, extolment.
5. (figuratively) An exalted state of mind; self-exaltation, pride, elation.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	ēlātiō	ēlātiōnēs
genitive	ēlātiōnis	ēlātiōnum
dative	ēlātiōnī	ēlātiōnibus
accusative	ēlātiōnem	ēlātiōnēs
ablative	ēlātiōne	ēlātiōnibus
vocative	ēlātiō	ēlātiōnēs

Related terms

• efferō
• ēlātē
• ēlātus

Descendants

• Catalan: elació
• English: elation
• French: élation
• Portuguese: elação
• Spanish: elación

References

• “elatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “elatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• elatio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• elatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the exalted strain of the speech: elatio atque altitudo orationis