(in the grammar of Finnish and other languages) denoting a case of nouns expressing a relation of motion or direction, usually translated by the English prepositions out of or away from
Compare illative (sense 3)
noun
2.
a.
the elative case
b.
an elative word or speech element
Word origin
C19: from Latin ēlātus, past participle of efferre to carry out; see elate