devocional

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Spanish devoción

Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.?

Proto-Italic *-ālis

Latin -ālis

Spanish -al

Spanish devocional

From devoción + -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /deboθjoˈnal/ [d̪e.β̞o.θjoˈnal] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
• IPA^(key): /debosjoˈnal/ [d̪e.β̞o.sjoˈnal] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: de‧vo‧cio‧nal

Adjective

devocional m or f (masculine and feminine plural devocionales)

1. devotional
   • 2017 December, “La Virgen inspirada en Murillo”, in Prensa Libre‎^[1]:

     La Catedral Metropolitana alberga un valioso patrimonio artístico y devocional que ha resguardado a lo largo de 200 años en el Valle de la Ermita

     The Metropolitan Cathedral houses a valuable artistic and devotional heritage that it has safeguarded over the course of 200 years in el Valle de la Ermita

Further reading

• “devocional”, 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