tollo

Tollo, tollere, sustuli, sublatum, third conjugation, and the principal parts are the whole lesson. The perfect and supine are borrowed wholesale from suffero, so nothing after the present stem looks remotely like tollo. Learn sustuli and sublatum as if they were separate words and you will never be caught out by them.

Both senses run at the same time - raise up and take away - which is why sublatus can mean "exalted" or "removed" and only the context decides. Roman family law used the literal act: a father would tollere liberum, lift the newborn from the ground, to acknowledge it as his own, so tollere a child is to accept it. Compounds keep both halves alive: extollo, "raise up, exalt"; attollo, "lift towards"; and the sublat- stem behind English sublate.