devotus

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Latin

Etymology

    Etymology tree
    Latin dēvoveō
    Proto-Indo-European *-tós
    Proto-Italic *-tos
    Latin -tus
    Latin dēvōtus

    Perfect passive participle of dēvoveō (“vow, offer”).

    Pronunciation

    (Classical Latin) IPA(key):

    Participle

    dēvōtus (feminine dēvōta, neuter dēvōtum); first/second-declension participle

    1. vowed, promised, dedicated, having been vowed, devoted
    2. appointed, destined, having been appointed
      (Can we add an example for this sense?)

    Declension

    First/second-declension adjective.

    singular plural
    masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
    nominative dēvōtus dēvōta dēvōtum dēvōtī dēvōtae dēvōta
    genitive dēvōtī dēvōtae dēvōtī dēvōtōrum dēvōtārum dēvōtōrum
    dative dēvōtō dēvōtae dēvōtō dēvōtīs
    accusative dēvōtum dēvōtam dēvōtum dēvōtōs dēvōtās dēvōta
    ablative dēvōtō dēvōtā dēvōtō dēvōtīs
    vocative dēvōte dēvōta dēvōtum dēvōtī dēvōtae dēvōta

    Descendants

    References

    • “devotus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • “devotus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • "devotus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
    • devotus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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