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”)

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• 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