English → Latin
“lift” in Latin
tollōto raise, lift up, elevate; to remove, take away, steal, rob; to destroy, eliminate, annulextollōto elevate; to erect (a building); to exalt, extolattollōto lift, lift up; raise, raise up; elevate or sustain; rearērigōto raise up, elevate, lift; to lift, raise, boost; to build, erectlevōto 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, consolesublevōto lift up or raise (from underneath); to support, sustain, assist or encourage; to lighten or alleviateexcitōto call forth: to rouse, awaken, summon; to bring forth: to raise, build; to bring out: to encourage, revive, excite, stsurgōto rise; to arise; to rise from bed; to get up; to stand up; to lift up; to straighten; to occur; to take place; to arisassurgōto rise or stand (up); to mount or tower up, increase in size, swell, rise; to rise or increase in courage, become excit
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
lift v.
tollere: extollere: attollere. To lift up, erigere, levare, allevare, sublevare (to raise from the ground); excitare (to raise that which has sunk; as, the head): to lift up one’s self, se erigere; surgere; assurgere (to stand up, rise): to lift up anyone with the hand, manu allevare aliquem: to lift up the hands, manus tollere: to lift up the hands to heaven, tendere manus, or manus supplices ad caelum: to lift up hands against anyone, manus tentare in aliquem or alicui (with hostile purpose): to lift up the eyes, oculos erigere, tollere; to anything, suspicere aliquid: figuratively, to lift up one’s heart or soul to God, *animum convertere ad cogitationem Dei: to lift up the thoughts to things above, *animum ad coelestia tollere: to lift up the voice, vocem intendere (opposed to vocem remittere).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for lift?
- The usual Latin words for “lift” are tollō, extollō, attollō; also ērigō, levō, allevō. 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.