devot

devot

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• “devot” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “devot” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Borrowed from Latin devotus, from dēvoveō, from voveō.

• IPA^(key): /deˈvoːt/
• Rhymes: -oːt

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• Hyphenation: de‧vot

devot (strong nominative masculine singular devoter, comparative devoter, superlative am devotesten)

1. submissive, servile

   Devot erfüllte er jeden von ihm geäußerten Wunsch.

   He submissively fulfilled every wish expressed by him.

• “devot” in Duden online
• “devot” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “devot” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon

Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin dēvōtus, from Latin dēvoveō + -tus.

devot m (oblique and nominative feminine singular devote)

1. devout

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• Middle French: dévot
  • French: dévot
    • → Romanian: devot
• → Middle English: devout, devouth, devot, devote, devolte
  • English: devout
  • Scots: devot, devote, devoit

• “dévot”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from French dévot, from Middle French dévot, from Old French devot, borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin dēvōtus, from Latin dēvoveō + -tus.

• IPA^(key): /deˈvot/

devot m or n (feminine singular devotă, masculine plural devoți, feminine and neuter plural devote)

1. pious

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• “devot”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025
• devot in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

Derived from Latin dēvōtus.

devot (not comparable)

1. devout, zealous

• devot in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker