devoro

1. first-person singular present indicative of devorar

From dē- +‎ vorō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key):
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key):

dēvorō (present infinitive dēvorāre, perfect active dēvorāvī, supine dēvorātum); first conjugation

1. 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.

2. 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).)

3. to absorb
4. to consume

• “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.

devoro

1. first-person singular present indicative of devorar

devoro

1. first-person singular present indicative of devorar