devorar

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dēvorāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central)
• IPA^(key): (Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencian)

Verb

devorar (first-person singular present devoro, first-person singular preterite devorí, past participle devorat); root stress: (Central, Balearic) /ɔ/; (Valencian) /o/

1. to devour
2. (colloquial) to pig out, to gorge

Conjugation

Further reading

• “devorar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “devorar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “devorar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “devorar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from English devour, French dévorer, Italian divorare, Spanish devorar, all from Latin dēvorō (“I devour”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /de.voˈrar/

Verb

devorar (present tense devoras, past tense devoris, future tense devoros, imperative devorez, conditional devorus)

1. to devour; to eat greedily

Conjugation

    Conjugation of devorar

		present		past		future
infinitive		devorar		devorir		devoror
tense		devoras		devoris		devoros
conditional		devorus
imperative		devorez
adjective active participle		devoranta		devorinta		devoronta
adverbial active participle		devorante		devorinte		devoronte
nominal active participle	singular	devoranto		devorinto		devoronto
	plural	devoranti		devorinti		devoronti
adjective passive participle		devorata		devorita		devorota
adverbial passive participle		devorate		devorite		devorote
nominal passive participle	singular	devorato		devorito		devoroto
	plural	devorati		devoriti		devoroti

Synonyms

• (to devour): manjegar

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dēvorāre (“to devour”), from vorō (“to devour”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerh₃- (“to devour”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: de‧vo‧rar

Verb

devorar (first-person singular present devoro, first-person singular preterite devorei, past participle devorado)

1. to devour (to eat greedily)

   Synonym: consumir

2. (of books) to read many books in a short time (when studying for a test)

Conjugation

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:devorar.

Related terms

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin dēvorāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /deboˈɾaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: de‧vo‧rar

Verb

devorar (first-person singular present devoro, first-person singular preterite devoré, past participle devorado)

1. to devour

   Synonym: jambarse (Mexico)

Conjugation

Further reading

• “devorar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014