devolver

From devolve + -er .

devolver (plural devolvers )

1. A devolutionist.
   • 1999, Paul Charles Light, The True Size of Government, page 55:

     It is on more traditional political attitudes where devolvers and reinventors draw on very different constituencies, creating two distinct packages of views toward government.

• revolved

Learned borrowing from Latin dēvolvere ("to roll or to tumble off or down").

• Audio (Portugal (Porto)): (file)
• Hyphenation: de‧vol‧ver

devolver (first-person singular present devolvo , first-person singular preterite devolvi , past participle devolvido )

1. to return, give back

   Synonym: retornar

   Vou devolver isso.

   I'll give it back.

2. to refund, to reimburse

   Synonym: reembolsar

3. to devolve

• devolução

• "devolver", in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• "devolver", in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Borrowed from Latin dēvolvere ("roll or tumble off or down"). Cognate with English devolve .

• IPA ^(key): /debolˈbeɾ/ [d̪e.β̞olˈβ̞eɾ]
• Rhymes: -eɾ
• Syllabification: de‧vol‧ver

devolver (first-person singular present devuelvo , first-person singular preterite devolví , past participle devuelto )

1. to return, refund, restore, give back, hand back, bring back, send back etc.
2. to pay back, repay (to pay an amount of money owed to another)
3. to devolve
4. (colloquial ) to throw up, to vomit

   Synonym: vomitar

• "devolver", in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

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