Enate vs Elate - What's the difference?
enate | elate |
A relative whose relation is traced only through female members of the family.
* 2000 , Alexander H. Bolyanatz, Mortuary Feasting on New Ireland: The Activation of Matriliny Among the Sursurunga ,
Any maternal female relative.
Related to someone by female connections.
Related on the maternal side of the family.
(linguistics) Having identical grammatical structure (but with elements that are semantically different).
Growing out.
To make joyful or proud.
To lift up; raise; elevate.
elated; exultant
* Alexander Pope
* Mrs. H. H. Jackson
(obsolete) Lifted up; raised; elevated.
* Fenton
* Sir W. Jones
As adjectives the difference between enate and elate
is that enate is related to someone by female connections while elate is elated; exultant.As a noun enate
is a relative whose relation is traced only through female members of the family.As a verb elate is
to make joyful or proud.enate
English
Noun
(en noun)- A great grandmother is an enate if she is your mother’s mother's mother.
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- Similarly, since the wearing of a sawat'' is importantly informed by matrilineal group membership — an enate of the deceased cannot wear a ''sawat — it would be an error to assume that matrilineal group membership is necessarily salient in explaining the behavior of a social actor.
Antonyms
* agnateAdjective
(en adjective)Coordinate terms
* agnate (also linguistics )Synonyms
* enaticAnagrams
* ----elate
English
Verb
(elat)Adjective
(head)- O, thoughtless mortals! ever blind to fate, / Too soon dejected, and dejected, and too soon elate .
- Our nineteenth century is wonderfully set up in its own esteem, wonderfully elate at its progress.
- with upper lip elate
- And sovereign law, that State's collected will, / O'er thrones and globes, elate , / Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill.