devodar

An obsolete verb, from Latin devotare ("to vow"), meaning to cast one's vote or take an oath. It appears only in historical/legal texts about medieval assemblies and oath-taking, not in any form of modern Spanish.

• Los diccionarios históricos definen devodar como "dar alguien su voto o juramento". — Historical dictionaries define devodar as "to give one's vote or oath."
• En las asambleas medievales, los nobles devodaban antes de tomar una decisión. — In medieval assemblies, the nobles cast their votes before making a decision.
• El término devodar rara vez aparece fuera de estudios filológicos. — The term devodar rarely appears outside philological studies.

Trying to use devodar as a modern synonym of votar — it's a marked as obsolete (desus.) in the RAE dictionary and has no place in contemporary speech or writing.

Often confused with votar.