levantar

Signification

to lift
to raise, put up
to put up; build up (buildings)
to increase; turn up (volume, power etc.)
to adjourn; close; end (a meeting)
to flush out
to draw up (plans)
to take, make (a census)
to remove; get rid of (a prohibition)
to nick, rob (steal)
to take down (a tent)
to give rise to
to set up, found (a business)
to bring back, make successful again (a business)
to take home, earn (money)
to pick (a card)
to beat (a hand)
(reflexive) to get up, to get out of bed
(reflexive) to ride; mount (have sex with)
to levitate

Fréquence

Coupé comme

le‧van‧tar

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/lebanˈtaɾ/

Étymologie

Either from levante (corresponding to Latin levāntem), the old present participle of levar, itself the Old Spanish form of llevar, from Latin levō, levāre, or from a Vulgar Latin *levantāre, derived from levāns, levānte-, present participle of levō. Compare Portuguese and Galician levantar, Asturian llevantar, Romansch alvantar, leventar.