devodar

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *de

Proto-Indo-European *-h₁

Proto-Indo-European *déh₁

Proto-Italic *dē

Latin dē

Latin dē-

Proto-Indo-European *h₁wegʷʰ-

Proto-Indo-European *-yeti

Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti

Proto-Indo-European *h₁wogʷʰéyeti

Proto-Italic *woɣʷeō

Latin voveō

Latin dēvoveō

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Italic *-tos

Latin -tus

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.

Proto-Italic *-ājō

Proto-Italic *-āō

Latin -ō

Latin -tō

Latin dēvōtāre

Spanish devodar

Inherited from Latin dēvōtāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /deboˈdaɾ/ [d̪e.β̞oˈð̞aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: de‧vo‧dar

Verb

devodar (first-person singular present devodo, first-person singular preterite devodé, past participle devodado)

1. (intransitive, obsolete) to vow; to swear [14–16th c.]

Conjugation

    Conjugation of devodar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

infinitive			devodar
gerund			devodando
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		devodado		devodada
		plural		devodados		devodadas
		singular			plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	devodo	devodastú devodásvos	devoda	devodamos	devodáis	devodan
	imperfect	devodaba	devodabas	devodaba	devodábamos	devodabais	devodaban
	preterite	devodé	devodaste	devodó	devodamos	devodasteis	devodaron
	future	devodaré	devodarás	devodará	devodaremos	devodaréis	devodarán
	conditional	devodaría	devodarías	devodaría	devodaríamos	devodaríais	devodarían
subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	devode	devodestú devodésvos2	devode	devodemos	devodéis	devoden
	imperfect (ra)	devodara	devodaras	devodara	devodáramos	devodarais	devodaran
	imperfect (se)	devodase	devodases	devodase	devodásemos	devodaseis	devodasen
	future1	devodare	devodares	devodare	devodáremos	devodareis	devodaren
imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		devodatú devodávos	devode	devodemos	devodad	devoden
	negative		no devodes	no devode	no devodemos	no devodéis	no devoden

¹Rare; now chiefly used in legal language.
²Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tuteo-form for the present subjunctive.

Further reading

• “devodar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 24th edition, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 30 October 2026
• Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José Antonio (1983–1991), “devodar”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic etymological dictionary]‎^[1] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos