devorar
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== Catalan ==
=== Etymology ===
Learned borrowing from Latin dēvorāre.
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): (Northern, Central) [də.βuˈɾa]
IPA(key): (Balearic) [də.voˈɾa]
IPA(key): (Valencia) [de.voˈɾaɾ]
IPA(key): (Northwestern) [de.βoˈɾa]
=== Verb ===
devorar (first-person singular present devoro, first-person singular preterite devorí, past participle devorat); root stress: (Northern) /o̞/; (Balearic, Central) /ɔ/; (Northwestern, Valencia) /o/
to devour
(colloquial) to pig out, to gorge
==== Conjugation ====
=== Further reading ===
“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, 2026
“devorar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “devorar”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)
== Ido ==
=== Etymology ===
Borrowed from English devour, French dévorer, Italian divorare, Spanish devorar, all from Latin dēvorō (“to devour”).
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /de.voˈrar/
=== Verb ===
devorar (present tense devoras, past tense devoris, future tense devoros, imperative devorez, conditional devorus)
to devour; to eat greedily
==== Conjugation ====
==== Synonyms ====
(to devour): manjegar
== Portuguese ==
=== Etymology ===
Learned borrowing from Latin dēvorāre (“to devour”), from vorō (“to devour”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerh₃- (“to devour”).
=== Pronunciation ===
Hyphenation: de‧vo‧rar
=== Verb ===
devorar (first-person singular present devoro, first-person singular preterite devorei, past participle devorado)
to devour (to eat quickly, greedily, hungrily, or ravenously)
Synonym: consumir
to devour (to take in avidly with the intellect or with one's gaze)
==== Conjugation ====
==== Related terms ====
=== Further reading ===
“devorar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
“devorar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
== Spanish ==
=== Etymology ===
Learned borrowing from Latin dēvorāre.
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /deboˈɾaɾ/ [d̪e.β̞oˈɾaɾ]
Rhymes: -aɾ
Syllabification: de‧vo‧rar
=== Verb ===
devorar (first-person singular present devoro, first-person singular preterite devoré, past participle devorado)
to devour
Synonym: jambarse (Mexico)
(Internet slang) to jump out, to do something well
==== Conjugation ====
=== Further reading ===
“devorar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025