devorar

Meaning

  1. to devour (to eat quickly, greedily, hungrily, or ravenously)
  2. to devour (to take in avidly with the intellect or with one's gaze)

Frequency

C2
Pronounced as (IPA)
/de.voˈɾa(ʁ)/
Etymology

In summary

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

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