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- Latin · derived fromdēvōtiō
- Old French · derived fromdevocion
- English todaydevotion
From Old French devocion, from Latin dēvōtiō, from dēvōtum + -tio, from the supine of dēvoveō (“vow, devote”); equivalent to devote + -ion.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.