Dictionary formvoco, vocare, vocavi, vocatum

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Translation

to call, summon; to name

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Examples

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The teacher is calling the boys.

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They were summoned to the council.

Roma .

The city is called Rome.

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He called the soldiers to arms.

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God called the light day.

Voco, vocare, vocavi, vocatum, first conjugation and completely regular, which is worth noticing in a list where so little else is.

It is built on vox, vocis, and it reaches everywhere English "call" reaches: summon a person, name a thing, invoke a god. In the passive it is the ordinary way to say what something is called, urbs Roma vocatur, and it takes a second nominative rather than any preposition. Naming can also take a double accusative in the active, lucem diem vocavit. The compounds are heavily used: convoco, invoco, revoco, provoco, evoco, advoco. From advoco comes advocate and, through Norman French, avow and vouch; vocatio, "a calling", becomes vocation, and the grammarian's vocative is the case you call somebody by.

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This word is taught in chapter 3, lesson 10: voco, iubeo, regio and 7 more words.