élève, n.f., (agri.) breeding (of cattle).
élevé (él-vé), -e, part., raised, grand; heroic, eminent, stately, lofty; high (of prices); exalted. C’est un jeune homme bien —; he is a very well-bred youth.
élever (él-vé), v.a., to raise, to raise up, to exalt, to lift up; to cast up; to ennoble; to erect, to rear up, to set up; to augment, to increase; to run up (of accounts); to bring up, to breed; to rear; to educate, to train up, to nurse, to foster. — quelqu’un jusqu’aux nues; to extol any one to the skies. — la voix; to raise one’s voice. J’ai pris de la peine à — ces plantes; I took some trouble to raise those plants.
s’élever, v.r., to arise, to break out; to ascend, to mount, to go up, to run up; to amount; to be elevated; to increase, to augment; to run up (of accounts); to be started. Une tempête s’éleva; a storm arose. Il s’éleva une querelle; a quarrel broke out. Les vapeurs s’élèvent de la terre; vapors rise from the earth. Celui qui s’élève sera abaissé; he who exalts himself shall be humbled. Les vagues s’élevèrent hautes et menaçantes; the waves rolled high and threatening.
éleveur (él-veur), n.m., elevator; cattle-breeder, grazier.
élevure (él-vur), n.f., pimple, blotch, blain.
elfe, n.m., elf (fairy).
élider, v.a., (gram.) to cut off, to elide.
s’élider, v.r., to be elided, to be cut off. Cette lettre s’élide; that letter is elided.
éligibilité, n.f., eligibility, fitness.