levantar

Meaning

1. to lift; to raise
2. to pick up
3. to stand (place upright)
4. (reflexive) to stand up
5. (reflexive) to get up (rise from one’s bed)
6. to put up (build a structure)
7. (reflexive) to rise up (rebel)

Pronounced as (IPA)

[leβanˈtaɾ]

Etymology

Inherited from Latin: levans

In summary

From Old Galician-Portuguese levantar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), itself from a Vulgar Latin *levantāre, from Latin levans, levante-, present participle of levō.