devorar

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin dēvorāre, present active infinitive of dēvorō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [də.βuˈɾa]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [də.voˈɾa]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [de.voˈɾaɾ]

Verb

devorar (first-person singular present devoro, first-person singular preterite devorí, past participle devorat)

1. to devour
2. (colloquial) to pig out, to gorge

Further reading

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

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Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from English devour, French dévorer, Italian divorare, Spanish devorar, all from Latin dēvorō (“I devour”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /de.voˈrar/

Verb

devorar (present tense devoras, past tense devoris, future tense devoros, imperative devorez, conditional devorus)

1. to devour; to eat greedily

Conjugation

    Conjugation of devorar

		present		past		future
infinitive		devorar		devorir		devoror
tense		devoras		devoris		devoros
conditional		devorus
imperative		devorez
adjective active participle		devoranta		devorinta		devoronta
adverbial active participle		devorante		devorinte		devoronte
nominal active participle	singular	devoranto		devorinto		devoronto
	plural	devoranti		devorinti		devoronti
adjective passive participle		devorata		devorita		devorota
adverbial passive participle		devorate		devorite		devorote
nominal passive participle	singular	devorato		devorito		devoroto
	plural	devorati		devoriti		devoroti

Synonyms

• (to devour): manjegar

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin dēvorāre, present active infinitive of dēvorō (“I devour”), from vorō (“I devour”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerh₃- (“to devour”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌde.vo.ˈɾa(ɹ)/
• IPA^(key): /ˌde.vo.ˈɾa(ɻ)/
• IPA^(key): /ˌde.vo.ˈɾa(χ)/
• IPA^(key): /dɨ.vu.ˈɾaɾ/
• Hyphenation: de‧vo‧rar

Verb

1. to devour (to eat greedily)
2. (of books) to read many books in a short time (when studying for a test)

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:devorar.

Synonyms

• (devour): consumir

Related terms

• devoração
• devorado
• devorador

• devorante
• devorismo
• voraz

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin dēvorāre, present active infinitive of dēvorō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /deboˈɾaɾ/ [d̪e.β̞oˈɾaɾ]

Verb

1. to devour

Further reading

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