# devorar
## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dēvorāre.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [də.βuˈɾa]
* IPA: (Balearic) [də.voˈɾa]
* IPA: (Valencia) [de.voˈɾaɾ]

### Verb

devorar (first-person singular present devoro, first-person singular preterite devorí, past participle devorat); root stress: (Central, Balearic) /ɔ/; (Valencia) /o/
* to devour
* (colloquial) to pig out, to gorge

#### Conjugation
### Further reading

* “devorar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “devorar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “devorar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “devorar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Ido
### Etymology

Borrowed from English devour, French dévorer, Italian divorare, Spanish devorar, all from Latin dēvorō (“I devour”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /de.voˈrar/

### Verb

devorar (present tense devoras, past tense devoris, future tense devoros, imperative devorez, conditional devorus)
* to devour; to eat greedily

#### Synonyms

* (to devour): manjegar

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dēvorāre (“to devour”), from vorō (“to devour”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerh₃- (“to devour”).

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /de.voˈɾa(ʁ)/ [de.voˈɾa(h)]
* (Brazil) IPA: /de.voˈɾa(ʁ)/ [de.voˈɾa(h)]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /de.voˈɾa(ɾ)/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /de.voˈɾa(ʁ)/ [de.voˈɾa(χ)]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /de.voˈɾa(ɻ)/
* (Portugal) IPA: /dɨ.vuˈɾaɾ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /dɨ.vuˈɾaɾ/
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /dɨ.buˈɾaɾ/ [dɨ.βuˈɾaɾ]
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /dɨ.vuˈɾa.ɾi/
* 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
** 1890, Aluísio Azevedo, O Cortiço, Rio de Janeiro: B. L. Garnier:E devorava-a de beijos violentos, repetidos, quentes, que sufocavam a menina, enchendo-a de espanto e de um instintivo temor cuja origem a pobrezinha, na sua simplicidade, não podia saber qual era.(please add an English translation of this quotation)
* to devour (to take in avidly with the intellect or with one's gaze)

#### Conjugation

$^1$Brazilian Portuguese. $^2$European Portuguese.

#### Related terms

* devoração
* devorado
* devorador
* devorante
* devorismo
* voraz

## Spanish
### Etymology

From Latin dēvorāre.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /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)

#### Conjugation

$^1$Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language. $^2$Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.

### Further reading

* “devorar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10