In grammar|lang=en terms the difference between lative and elative

is that lative is (grammar) a case of verbs, found in the uralic and northern caucasian languages, used to indicate motion to a location; in the northern caucasian languages, the lative also takes up functions of the dative case while elative is (grammar) in finno-ugric languages, one of the locative cases, expressing “out of,” as in finnish talosta, hungarian ból (“out of the house”) its opposite is the illative case (“into”) in finnish, the case form is used also to express "out of" or "proximity" in a figurative sense which in english is often conveyed by the word "about" .

As nouns the difference between lative and elative

is that lative is (grammar) a case of verbs, found in the uralic and northern caucasian languages, used to indicate motion to a location; in the northern caucasian languages, the lative also takes up functions of the dative case while elative is (grammar) in semitic languages, the “adjective of superiority” in some languages such as arabic, the concepts of comparative and superlative degree of an adjective are merged into a single form, the elative how this form is understood or translated depends upon context and definiteness in the absence of comparison, the elative conveys the notion of “greatest”, “supreme” or elative can be (grammar) in finno-ugric languages, one of the locative cases, expressing “out of,” as in finnish talosta, hungarian ból (“out of the house”) its opposite is the illative case (“into”) in finnish, the case form is used also to express "out of" or "proximity" in a figurative sense which in english is often conveyed by the word "about" .