sujetar
/suxeˈtaɾ/ · B1 · verb
to steady, hold, secure, attach, fasten
📎🔩 Sujetar shares a root with subject: to hold something under your control
From Latin subiectare, to throw or place under. Subject is the English cousin. Spanish kept the physical sense: sujetar is to hold or fasten something so it stays put, as in sujetar la escalera, to steady the ladder.