devotus

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *de

Proto-Italic *dē

Latin dē

Latin dē-

Proto-Italic *wogʷeō

Latin voveō

Latin dēvoveō

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Italic *-tos

Latin -tus

Latin dēvōtus

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈdɛ.wɔ.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈdɛː.vo.tus]

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
  • Middle French: dévot
    • French: dévot
      • → Romanian: devot
  • → Middle English: devout, devouth, devot, devote, devolte
    • English: devout
    • Scots: devot, devote, devoit
• 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’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.