devastar

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin dēvastāre, present active infinitive of dēvastō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [də.βəsˈta]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [də.vəsˈta]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [de.vasˈtaɾ]

Verb

devastar (first-person singular present devasto, first-person singular preterite devastí, past participle devastat)

1. (transitive) to devastate

Related terms

• devastador

Further reading

• “devastar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “devastar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “devastar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “devastar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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Ido

Verb

devastar (present tense devastas, past tense devastis, future tense devastos, imperative devastez, conditional devastus)

1. (transitive) to lay waste to, devastate

Conjugation

    Conjugation of devastar

		present		past		future
infinitive		devastar		devastir		devastor
tense		devastas		devastis		devastos
conditional		devastus
imperative		devastez
adjective active participle		devastanta		devastinta		devastonta
adverbial active participle		devastante		devastinte		devastonte
nominal active participle	singular	devastanto		devastinto		devastonto
	plural	devastanti		devastinti		devastonti
adjective passive participle		devastata		devastita		devastota
adverbial passive participle		devastate		devastite		devastote
nominal passive participle	singular	devastato		devastito		devastoto
	plural	devastati		devastiti		devastoti

Related terms

• devasto

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Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dēvastāre, present active infinitive of dēvastō.

Verb

devastar

1. (10th century) to devastate; to destroy; to massacre

Usage notes

• Only known recorded usage is in the Vie de Saint Léger.

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (devaster, supplement)

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

• vastar (poetic)

Etymology

From Latin dēvastāre, present active infinitive of dēvastō.

Verb

1. (transitive) to devastate; to lay waste (to completely destroy)

   Synonym: destruir

Related terms

• devastador

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin dēvastāre, present active infinitive of dēvastō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /debasˈtaɾ/ [d̪e.β̞asˈt̪aɾ]

Verb

1. (transitive) to devastate

Related terms

• devastador

Further reading

• “devastar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014