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Verb
devoro
- first-person singular present indicative of devorar
Latin
Etymology
From dē- + vorō.
Pronunciation
Verb
dēvorō (present infinitive dēvorāre, perfect active dēvorāvī, supine dēvorātum); first conjugation
- to swallow, gulp down, or devour; enjoy
- Gaius Valerius Catullus, Catullus III, lines 13 & 14
- at vobis male sit, malae tenebrae
Orci, quae omnia bella devoratis.
- Yet let it be badly for you, evil shadows
of Orcus, who devour everything beautiful.
- to swallow down, repress, suppress, check, bear with patience
8 CE,
Ovid,
Fasti 4.845–846:
- haec ubi rēx didicit, lacrimās intrōrsus obortās
dēvorat et clausum pectore volnus habet.- When the king learned these things, he swallows down the tears which had arisen within, and keeps the wound enclosed in his heart.
(Romulus and Remus: In Ovid’s version of the death of Remus, Romulus represses his emotion when he learns Remus has been killed by Celer (builder).)
- to absorb
- to consume
Conjugation
Descendants
References
- “devoro”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “devoro”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- devoro in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Portuguese
Verb
devoro
- first-person singular present indicative of devorar
Spanish
Verb
devoro
- first-person singular present indicative of devorar