revoco Latin · revision 7075

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Plautus|origins=la vōx}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''revocō''' (present infinitive revocāre, perfect active revocāvī, supine revocātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from [[re-]] “back” and [[vocō]] “to call”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline) An inscription has the participle ⟨revocitus⟩.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest citation is from Plautus, of calling someone back, as ''quīn revocās?'' “why don't you call him back?”.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant to call back, recall, troops from battle, as in Caesar, a defendant to court, and in Cicero a speaker after a digression.^(OLD 2012) It meant to call back a performer for an encore, as in Cicero, to recall a commander to Rome, to recall from exile, and to recall to service.^(OLD 2012) It meant to return an invitation, to bring a thing back to its place, to look back, and to recall what was sent.^(OLD 2012) It meant to take back, and in Livy to cancel, revoke a decree.^(OLD 2012) From Cicero it meant to restrain, dissuade, to restore to a condition or to health, to revive a custom, to refer back, recall to mind, trace to an origin, reduce, and to refer a matter to an authority.^(OLD 2012)

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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant to recall, call away.^(Stelten 1995) [[en|revoke]] came through Old French in the mid-14th century, first meaning to retract.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of calling back.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar uses it of recalling troops.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of recalling from exile and of reviving.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy uses it of revoking.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * mid-14th century – English ''revoke'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To call back, [[m|en|recall]]; to recall troops.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To call for an [[m|en|encore]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # To recall from a post or from exile.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To invite back.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To bring back; to take back.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To cancel, [[m|en|revoke]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # To restrain, dissuade.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To restore; to revive.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To refer back; to recall to mind; to reduce.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[revocābilis]]

+ * [[revocātiō]]

+ * [[revocātor]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[vocō]]

+ * [[vōx]]

+ * [[en|revoke]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}