devoro
See also: devoró
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Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈdeː.u̯o.roː/, [ˈd̪eːu̯ɔroː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈde.vo.ro/, [ˈd̪ɛːvoro]
Verb
dēvorō (present infinitive dēvorāre, perfect active dēvorāvī, supine dēvorātum); first conjugation
- to swallow, gulp down, or devour; enjoy
- Gaius Valerius Catullus, Catullus III, lines 13 & 14
- at vobis male sit, malae tenebrae
Orci, quae omnia bella devoratis.- Yet let it be badly for you, evil shadows
of Orcus, who devour everything beautiful.
- Yet let it be badly for you, evil shadows
- at vobis male sit, malae tenebrae
- Gaius Valerius Catullus, Catullus III, lines 13 & 14
- to swallow down, repress, suppress, check, bear with patience
- 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 4.845–846:
- haec ubi rēx didicit, lacrimās intrōrsus obortās
dēvorat et clausum pectore volnus habet.- When the king learned these things, he swallows down the tears which had arisen within, and keeps the wound enclosed in his heart.
(Romulus and Remus: In Ovid’s version of the death of Remus, Romulus represses his emotion when he learns Remus has been killed by Celer (builder).)
- When the king learned these things, he swallows down the tears which had arisen within, and keeps the wound enclosed in his heart.
- haec ubi rēx didicit, lacrimās intrōrsus obortās
- to absorb
- to consume
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Descendants
References
- “devoro”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “devoro”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- devoro in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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