elevar

Borrowed from Latin ēlevāre (“to raise”).

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ə.ləˈβa]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ə.ləˈva]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [e.leˈvaɾ]
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

elevar (first-person singular present elevo, first-person singular preterite eleví, past participle elevat); root stress: (Central, Valencian, Balearic) /e/

1. to elevate, raise, raise up
2. (pronomial) to go up, rise

• elevació

• “elevar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “elevar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “elevar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “elevar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

elevar m

1. indefinite plural of elev

Learned borrowing from Latin ēlevāre (“to raise”).

• Hyphenation: e‧le‧var

elevar (first-person singular present elevo, first-person singular preterite elevei, past participle elevado)

1. to raise; to lift (to bring or take upwards)

   Synonyms: alçar, alcear, erguer, içar, levantar

   Antonym: baixar

2. to increase (to make a value or quantity larger)

   Synonym: aumentar

   Antonym: diminuir

3. (figurative) to put on a pedestal (to hold in very high esteem)
4. (reflexive) to tower over; to loom over

Borrowed from Latin ēlevāre (“to raise”).

• IPA^(key): /eleˈbaɾ/ [e.leˈβ̞aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: e‧le‧var

elevar (first-person singular present elevo, first-person singular preterite elevé, past participle elevado)

1. to elevate
2. to raise; lift up
   • 2020 October 11, Alejandro Ciriza, El País‎:

     Rafael Nadal eleva, con mascarilla, su 13ª Copa de los Mosqueteros en un ambiente que nada tiene que ver con el de otras ocasiones.

     Rafael Nadal, wearing a mask, lifts up his 13th Musketeers' Trophy in at atmosphere nothing like any other times.

3. (mathematics) to raise (a number) (to a power)

• “elevar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014