elevo

elevo

1. first-person singular present indicative of elevar

• IPA^(key): /eˈlɛ.vo/
• Rhymes: -ɛvo
• Hyphenation: e‧lè‧vo

elevo

1. first-person singular present indicative of elevare

• -evole

Borrowed from French élève.

elevo m (plural elevos, feminine eleva)

1. (male) student, pupil

From ex- +‎ levō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈeː.ɫɛ.woː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɛː.le.vo]

ēlevō (present infinitive ēlevāre, perfect active ēlevāvī, supine ēlevātum); first conjugation

1. to raise or elevate

   Synonyms: levō, ērigō, excellō, tollō, efferō, allevō, ēvehō, ēdō, sublīmō

   Antonyms: dēiciō, abiciō

2. to alleviate or sooth

   Synonyms: lēniō, mītigō, plācō, restinguō, commītigō, levō, allevō, alleviō

   Antonyms: sollicitō, excitō, īnstīgō, īnstinguō, exciō, perpellō, concieō, concitō, īnflammō, cieō, moveō, mōlior, adhortor, ērigō

   aegritūdinem ēlevāre ― to alleviate one's sorrows

3. to weaken, lessen

   perspicivitātem ēlevāre ― to lessen the evidence

4. to belittle, depreciate, denigrate

   Antonym: extollō

   • 55 BCE, Cicero, De Oratore 2.58:

     Est autem, ut ad illud tertium veniam, est plane oratoris movere risum; vel quod ipsa hilaritas benevolentiam conciliat ei, per quem excitata est; […] vel quod frangit adversarium, quod impedit, quod elevat, quod deterret, quod refutat; […]

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   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 9.37:

     Paucis milites adloquitur; Samnitium bella extollit, elevat Etruscos; nec hostem hosti nec multitudinem multitudini comparandam ait; esse praeterea telum aliud occultum; scituros in tempore; interea taceri opus esse.

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   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 28.42.6:

     Facile est […] elevare meas res gestas, tam hercule quam, si uictor ex Africa redierim, ea ipsa elevare quae nunc retinendi mei causa ut terribilia eadem videantur verbis extolluntur.

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• “elevo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “elevo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “elevo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to comfort another in his trouble: aegritudinem alicuius elevare
    

elevo

1. first-person singular present indicative of elevar

• IPA^(key): [eˈlevo]

elevo f

1. vocative singular of elevă

elevo

1. first-person singular present indicative of elevar