devorar

Borrowed from Latin dēvorāre.

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

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

• “devorar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies , 2007 April
• “devorar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “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.

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

• IPA^(key): /de.voˈrar/

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

1. to devour; to eat greedily

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

• (to devour): manjegar

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

• Hyphenation: de‧vo‧rar

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

1. to devour (to eat quickly, greedily, hungrily, or ravenously)

   Synonym: consumir

   • 1890, Aluizio Azevedo, O Cortiço, Rio de Janeiro: B. L. Garnier:

     E devorava-a de beijos violentos, repetidos, quentes, que sufocavam a menina, enchendo-a de espanto e de um instintivo temor cuja origem a pobrezinha, na sua simplicidade, não podia saber qual era.

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2. to devour (to take in avidly with the intellect or with one's gaze)

From Latin dēvorāre.

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

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

1. to devour

   Synonym: jambarse (Mexico)

• “devorar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy , 2024 December 10