levantar

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)

“Nadie podía levantar un coche.” — Nobody could lift a car.

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, Romansh alvantar, leventar.