## Meanings
1. To give your time, energy, or attention fully to a person, activity, or purpose.
2. To set something aside for a particular use or purpose.

## Examples
- They devoted their lives to helping the poor.
- The museum devotes a whole room to ancient Egyptian art.

## Derived Forms
- devotement
- devoter
- devotion
- misdevote
- predevote
- redevote

## Related Forms
- devotee

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *h₁wegʷʰ-
- Root: dēvoveō

## Etymology
Borrowed from Latin dēvōtus, past participle of Latin dēvoveō (“dedicate by a vow, sacrifice oneself, promise solemnly”). Doublet of devow; see also devout. Displaced native Middle English ēstful, from Old English ēstful.

## AI Etymology
devote was borrowed from Latin dēvōtus, past participle of Latin dēvoveō (“dedicate by a vow, sacrifice oneself, promise solemnly”). Doublet of devow; see also devout. Displaced native Middle English ēstful, from Old English ēstful. The historical chain includes Proto-Indo-European *h₁wegʷʰ-, Latin dēvoveō. Current senses include to give your time, energy, or attention fully to a person, activity, or purpose and to set something aside for a particular use or purpose. English relatives and later formations include devotement, devoter, devotion, devotee.

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