devotio

From dēvōtum +‎ -tio, from the supine of dēvoveō (“vow, devote”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /deːˈwoː.ti.oː/
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /deˈvo.t͡si.o/, [deˈvoː.t͡si.o]

dēvōtiō f (genitive dēvōtiōnis); third declension

1. The act of devoting or consecrating.
2. Fealty, allegiance, devotedness, deference.
3. Piety, devotion, zeal.
4. The act of cursing; curse, imprecation, execration.
5. Sorcery, enchantment; magical formula, incantation, spell.

Third declension.

• (allegiance): obsequium

• devotio in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• devotio in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• devotio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• devotio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• devotio in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers