elevar
Portuguese, verb/e.leˈva(ʁ)/
elevar is spelled E-L-E-V-A-R (6 letters) and appears 7.1 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 9,452nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Elevar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to raise; to lift (to bring or take upwards)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “pôr mais alto”.
What does elevar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to raise; to lift (to bring or take upwards)
- 2
to increase (to make a value or quantity larger)
- 3
to put on a pedestal (to hold in very high esteem)
- 4
to tower over; to loom over
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. pôr mais alto 2. fazer subir 3. levantar 4. encarecer
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of elevar
- elevo first-person present singular
- elevei first-person preterite singular
- elevado participle past
- elevares infinitive second-person singular
- elevarmos first-person infinitive plural
- elevardes infinitive plural second-person
- elevarem infinitive plural third-person
- elevando gerund
- elevados masculine participle past
- elevada feminine participle past
- elevadas feminine participle past
- elevas indicative present second-person
- eleva indicative present singular
- elevamos first-person indicative plural
- elevais indicative plural present
- elevam indicative plural present
- elevava first-person imperfect indicative
- elevavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce elevar?
- Brazil /e.leˈva(ʁ)/
- Brazil [e.leˈva(h)]
- /e.leˈva(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to elevar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is elevar in Portuguese?
elevar appears 7.1 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).