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Elate

2 stages from Latin to English.

Today it means to fill someone with great happiness, pride, or excitement
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Stage 1 of 2
efferre
Latin · ancient
"to carry out, to lift up"
to carry out, to lift up, from ex- (out) and ferre (to carry), with irregular past participle elatus
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Stage 2 of 2
elate
English · 1500s
"to fill someone with great happiness or pride"
settled as the English word for filling someone with great happiness
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