devorar

Borrowed from Latin dēvorāre.

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

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devorar (first-person singular present devoro, first-person singular preterite devorí, past participle devorat); root stress: (Central, Balearic) /ɔ/; (Valencia) /o/

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

• “devorar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “devorar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “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.

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

• IPA^(key): /de.voˈrar/

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

1. to devour; to eat greedily

• (to devour): manjegar

Borrowed from Latin dēvorāre (“to devour”), from vorō (“to devour”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerh₃- (“to devour”).

• Hyphenation: de‧vo‧rar

devorar (first-person singular present devoro, first-person singular preterite devorei, past participle devorado)

1. to devour (to eat quickly, greedily, hungrily, or ravenously)

   Synonym: consumir

   • 1890, Aluizio Azevedo, O Cortiço, Rio de Janeiro: B. L. Garnier:

     E devorava-a de beijos violentos, repetidos, quentes, que sufocavam a menina, enchendo-a de espanto e de um instintivo temor cuja origem a pobrezinha, na sua simplicidade, não podia saber qual era.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. to devour (to take in avidly with the intellect or with one's gaze)

From Latin dēvorāre.

• IPA^(key): /deboˈɾaɾ/ [d̪e.β̞oˈɾaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: de‧vo‧rar

devorar (first-person singular present devoro, first-person singular preterite devoré, past participle devorado)

1. to devour

   Synonym: jambarse (Mexico)

• “devorar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024