devoco Latin · revision 33569

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=86/82 BC, Rhetorica ad Herennium|origins=ine-pro *uōkʷs}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈdeː.wɔ.koː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈdɛː.vo.ko]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''dēvocō''' (present infinitive dēvocāre, perfect active dēvocāvī, supine dēvocātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|dē-|vocō|t2=to call]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan explains [[m|la|vocō]] as a denominative from the stem of [[m|la|vōx|t=voice]], which goes back to [[itc-pro|*wōkʷs]] and [[ine-pro|*uōkʷs|t=voice]].^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[xum|subocau|t=I invoke]] and [[sa|वाक्|tr=vā́k|t=voice, speech]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL records it from the ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'' and Cicero on,^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010) where it means to call someone away or divert them from one thing to another.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means to call down from a higher place:^(OLD 2012) Livy speaks of calling Jupiter and the other gods down to help, and Cicero says that Socrates first called philosophy down from the sky.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Catullus uses it of Trivia drawn down from her heavenly circuit, and Tibullus of a song that calls bones from the pyre,^(OLD 2012) and Horace of stars brought down from the sky by spells.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) It also means to call away or summon from a place: Cicero speaks of calling someone from a province to glory and a triumph, and Nepos of inviting to dinner all those seen in the forum.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) Figuratively it is to divert from a course or occupation,^(OLD 2012) as when Cicero says that greed did not draw someone from his course to plunder, and Caesar has ''in dubium devocare'', to put at risk.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Valerius Maximus uses ''rem ad populum devocare'' for referring a matter to the people.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) Church Latin keeps the sense to call away or down.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 86/82 BC – The ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'', of diverting.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of calling philosophy down from the sky.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy, of calling the gods down to help.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To call down (from a higher place); to draw down by spells.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To call away, [[m|en|summon]] (from a place); to invite.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To call away, [[m|en|divert]] (from one activity to another).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''In dubium dēvocāre'', to put at risk.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[vocō]]

+ * [[vōx]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}