levantar
Meaning
- to lift
- to raise; to put up
- to put up; to build up (buildings)
- to increase; to turn up (volume, power etc.)
- to adjourn; to close; to 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; to earn (money)
- to pick (a card)
- to beat (a hand)
- (reflexive) to get up; to get out of bed
- (reflexive) to ride; to mount (have sex with)
- to levitate
Concepts
push down
to rise
set smb against
cause to get up
Opposite of
abrir, acostar
Synonyms
construir una pared
dar una paliza
palanquear
edificar materialmente
levantar muros
levantar paredes
levantar un muro
trabajar una pared
poner erguido o de pie
conquistar amorosamente
calumniar a alguno
Translations
lever
heben
levantar
alzare
alçarFrequency
Hyphenated as
le‧van‧tar
Pronounced as (IPA)
/lebanˈtaɾ/
Etymology
In summary
Inherited from Old Spanish levantar, 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 Galician and Portuguese levantar, Asturian llevantar, Romansch alvantar, leventar.
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