English → Latin
“elevate” in Latin
tollōto raise, lift up, elevate; to remove, take away, steal, rob; to destroy, eliminate, annulattollōto lift, lift up; raise, raise up; elevate or sustain; rearextollōto elevate; to erect (a building); to exalt, extollevōto raise, elevate, lift up; to make light, lighten; to relieve, ease, comfortallevōto lift or set up, raise; to lighten, lessen, alleviate, mitigate, reduce; to sustain, comfort, consoleefferōto bring, bear, carry, take out, forth, away; transport; to carry out (of the house) for burial, bear to the grave, buryēlevōto raise or elevate; to alleviate or sooth; to weaken, lessen
The English word elevate itself goes back to Latin levis, through ēlevātus.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
elevate
Raise, lift up, tollere: attollere: extollere: levare: allevare (Quint.); efferre (also figuratively of lifting up with pride).
FIG., To elevate one’s thoughts to God, *animum convertere or evehere ad cogitationem Dei; one’s heart above the world, *animum ad coelestia tollere (Muret.): they cannot elevate their minds to anything noble or God-like, nihil altum, nihil magnificum ac divinum suspicere possunt. To be elevated (= elated), se efferre aliqua re; efferri aliqua re; by prosperity, secunda fortuna efferri; secundis rebus intumescere or insolescere. Elevated to honors, honore amplificatus.
Detract from, remove, elevare (e.g., alicujus auctoritatem, facta, famam alicujus rei, etc.).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for elevate?
- The usual Latin words for “elevate” are tollō, attollō, extollō; also levō, allevō, efferō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.