The story
- Latin · derived fromexaltātiō“exaltation, elevation”
- Old French · derived fromexaltacion
- Middle English · inherited fromexaltacioun
- English todayexaltation
From Middle English exaltacioun, exaltatioun, from Old French exaltacion and Latin exaltātiō (“exaltation, elevation”), from exaltō (“raise, elevate, exalt”), from ex (“from, out of”) + altus (“high”). By surface analysis, exalt + -ation.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.