devorar

Borrowed from Latin dēvorāre.

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

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

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

• “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.

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 greedily)

   Synonym: consumir

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

For quotations using this term, see Citations:devorar.

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, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014