devotus

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Latin

Etymology

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

Participle

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

  1. vowed, promised, dedicated, having been vowed
  2. appointed, destined, having been appointed

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative dēvōtus dēvōta dēvōtum dēvōtī dēvōtae dēvōta
Genitive dēvōtī dēvōtae dēvōtī dēvōtōrum dēvōtārum dēvōtōrum
Dative dēvōtō 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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