elve

See also: élve

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛlv

Etymology 1

Obsolete form of elf.

Noun

elve (plural elves)

1. Obsolete form of elf.
   • 1796, Mary Wollstonecraft, Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, Oxford, published 2009, page 61:

     Is it the offspring of thoughtless animal spirits, or the elve of fancy continually flitting round the expected pleasure?

   Sir Olof, he rode out at early day, / And so came he unto an Elve-dance gay.

Etymology 2

From e(mission of) l(ight and) v(ery low-frequency perturbations from) e(lectromagnetic pulse sources), and to avoid clashing with the acronym ELF (extremely low frequency) used in the same field of science.

Alternative forms

• ELVE, ELVES

Noun

elve (plural elves)

1. (astronomy, meteorology) A rapidly expanding disk-shaped region of red luminosity in the ionosphere, lasting less than a thousandth of a second, which occurs high above energetic cloud-to-ground lightning of positive or negative polarity.
   • 2006, Martin Füllekrug, Eugene A. Mareev, Michael J. Rycroft, Sprites, elves and intense lightning discharges‎^[1], page 37:

     It is likely that the first elve was recorded with the Space Shuttle low-light camera.

Coordinate terms

• blue jet
• blue starter
• gigantic jet
• gnome
• pixie
• red sprite
• sprelve
• sprite
• sprite halo
• transient luminous event (TLE)
• troll
• upward lightning

 

Translations

Translations

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 淘氣精靈／淘气精灵 (táoqì jīnglíng)

• French: elfe (fr)

Anagrams

• EELV, EVEL, elev., veel, vele

Hungarian

Etymology

elv +‎ -e (possessive suffix)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɛlvɛ]
• Hyphenation: el‧ve

Noun

elve

1. third-person singular single-possession possessive of elv

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	elve	—
accusative	elvét	—
dative	elvének	—
instrumental	elvével	—
causal-final	elvéért	—
translative	elvévé	—
terminative	elvéig	—
essive-formal	elveként	—
essive-modal	elvéül	—
inessive	elvében	—
superessive	elvén	—
adessive	elvénél	—
illative	elvébe	—
sublative	elvére	—
allative	elvéhez	—
elative	elvéből	—
delative	elvéről	—
ablative	elvétől	—
non-attributive possessive - singular	elvéé	—
non-attributive possessive - plural	elvééi	—

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From French élever.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /elve/

Adjective

elve

1. high

   Synonym: ot

Verb

elve (medial form elve)

1. to raise
2. to heighten
3. to bring up

Related terms

• elevasion