English
evocatrix
Evocatrix comes from Latin ēvocātrīx.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEēvocātrīx
- Englishearliest quotation 1920evocatrix
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEēvocātrīx
- Englishearliest quotation 1920evocatrix
Earliest quotation: 1920, The Woman Citizen: “She sees the woman knitter as “the evocatrix of…”
Equivalent to evocate + -trix
Proto-Indo-European *wokʷ-
Latin vocō ‘to call, summon, beckon’
Latin ēvocō ‘to summon, to call out, to call forth’
English evocate
Every English word from Latin ēvocātrīx
Today it means
noun A female evocator.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin ēvocātrīx / evocatrix