devotus
Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of dēvoveō (“vow, offer”).
Participle
dēvōtus (feminine dēvōta, neuter dēvōtum); first/second-declension participle
- vowed, promised, dedicated, having been vowed
- appointed, destined, having been appointed
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
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Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | dēvōtus | dēvōta | dēvōtum | dēvōtī | dēvōtae | dēvōta | |
Genitive | dēvōtī | dēvōtae | dēvōtī | dēvōtōrum | dēvōtārum | dēvōtōrum | |
Dative | dēvōtō | 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
- French: dévot
- → Middle English: devout, devouth, devot, devote, devolte
- English: devout
- Scots: devot, devote, devoit
- Piedmontese: divot
- → 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’s 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