elect

e-, 向外。-lect, 收集，选出，词源同collect,elite.

elect

elect: [15] To elect somebody is literally to ‘choose them out’ of a range of possibilities. The word comes from ēlectus, the past participle of Latin ēligere ‘pick out, select’. This was a compound verb formed from the prefix ex- ‘out’ and legere ‘gather, choose’ (source also of English collect, neglect, and select and, from its secondary meaning ‘read’, legible and lecture).

The notion of ‘choosing by ballot’ is the oldest of the verb’s senses in English. A person who may be ‘elected’ or ‘chosen’ is eligible [15] (an acquisition via French from the late Latin derivative ēligibilis). And someone who has been ‘picked out’ from the crowd is a member of the élite [18] (a borrowing of the feminine form of the past participle of French élire ‘elect’).

Also closely related is elegant.
=> collect, elegant, eligible, elite, lecture, legible, neglect, select

elect (v.)

early 15c., "to choose for an office, position, or duty," from Latin electus, past participle of eligere "to pick out, choose" (see election). Related: Elected; electing.

elect (adj.)

early 15c., of action, "voluntary;" of persons, "taken in preference to others," especially "chosen by God for some special purpose," from Latin electus, past participle of eligere "to pick out, choose" (see election). The noun meaning "those chosen by God" is from early 15c.

1. Councils should be answerable to the people who elect them.

市政会成员应对推选他们的人负责。

2. Concentrators in geological sciences elect either geology or geography.

主修地质学的学生要选修地质学或地理课程.

3. ELECT deals in Gas burner, Heating systems as well as in Heat generation plants.

在不同的、量的产品供应中,elect是一家成熟的制造商和服务商,例如气体燃烧器, 供暖系统,供热设备.

4. Austrian voters went to the polls this weekend to elect a successor to the President.

奥地利选民这周末去投票中心选举下届总统。

5. The right to elect chieftains and to depose them.

选举和撤换酋长的权利.