DEVOTEとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /dɪˈvəʊt/
• (General American, Canada) IPA: /dɪˈvoʊt/
• (General Australian) IPA: /dɪˈvəʉt/, /dɪˈvɐʉt/
• (Indic) IPA: /ɖɪˈvoʈ/, /ɖɛˈvoʈ/
• 韻: -əʊt

動詞

devote (third-person singular simple present devotes, present participle devoting, simple past and past participle devoted)

1. to give one's time, focus one's efforts, commit oneself, etc. entirely for, on, or to a certain matter; to consecrate.

   They devoted their lives to following Jesus Christ.

   I devoted this afternoon to repainting my study, and nothing will get in my way.

   • 1678, Obadiah Grew, Meditations Upon Our Saviour's Parable of The Prodigal Son:

     He is the Chief of this far Countrey; and to his service, carnal and wicked men devote themselves.

   • 1879, Asa Gray, Botanical Text-book:

     a leafless and simple branch […] devoted to the purpose of climbing

2. to consign over; to doom

   to devote one to destruction

   The city was devoted to the flames.

3. to execrate; to curse

使用する際の注意点

• Often used in the past participle form, which has become an adjective. See devoted.

派生語

関連する語

• devotee

形容詞

devote (comparative more devote, superlative most devote)

1. (obsolete) devoted; addicted; devout
   • 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     A world devote to universal wrack

アナグラム

• vetoed

Participle

dēvōte

1. vocative masculine singular of dēvōtus

形容詞

devotis (neuter devote); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. devoted

参照

• “devote”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “devote”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.