devotus

Latin

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
Latin dēvōtus

    Perfect passive participle of dēvoveō (“vow, offer”).

    Pronunciation

    Participle

    dēvōtus (feminine dēvōta, neuter dēvōtum); first/second-declension participle

    1. vowed, promised, dedicated, having been vowed, devoted
    2. appointed, destined, having been appointed
      (Can we add an example for this sense?)

    Declension

    First/second-declension adjective.

    singular plural
    masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
    nominative dēvōtus dēvōta dēvōtum dēvōtī dēvōtae dēvōta
    genitive dēvōtī dēvōtae dēvōtī dēvōtōrum dēvōtārum dēvōtōrum
    dative dēvōtō dēvōtae dēvōtō dēvōtīs
    accusative dēvōtum dēvōtam dēvōtum dēvōtōs dēvōtās dēvōta
    ablative dēvōtō dēvōtā dēvōtō dēvōtīs
    vocative dēvōte dēvōta dēvōtum dēvōtī dēvōtae dēvōta

    Descendants

    • → English: devote
    • → Old French: devot
    • Piedmontese: divot
    • Romanian: devot
    • → Portuguese: devotar

    References

    • “devotus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • “devotus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • "devotus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
    • “devotus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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