devotional
Meaningrelating to vowing oneself away
Common meaning: relating to devotion
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- dedown, away, off; undoing
- votto promise solemnly to a godLewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), p. 2015 · scan
- ionnoun ending: act or result
- aladjective ending: relating to
‘down, away, off’ + ‘to promise solemnly to a god’ → devotional
Journey through time
- Latinvoveō, vōtum‘to promise solemnly to a god’
- Englishdevote‘to give wholly to’
- Englishformed in English from devotedevotion‘deep love or loyalty’
- Englishformed in English from devotiondevotional‘relating to devotion’ · today
Sources & notes
Inferred source: no dictionary we use has an entry for this exact word. Its history is worked out from closely related, listed words in the same family, and we are trusting that link, so bear that in mind. Inferred meaning: relating to vowing oneself away. It can be inferred from any of: devotion.
Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
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- US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
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Origin: Formed in English from devotion + -al (inferred: this exact word is not listed in our dictionaries).
Roots
- voveō, vōtum Latin “to promise solemnly to a god”
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