English
evoke
Evoke comes from Latin ēvocō ‘to call out, summon’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEēvocō‘to call out, summon’
- Frenchc. 1600–presentévoquer
- Englishearliest quotation 1960evoke
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEēvocō‘to call out, summon’
- Frenchc. 1600–presentévoquer
- Englishearliest quotation 1960evoke
Earliest quotation: 1960, R. C. Riley, The London-Birmingham services - Past, Present and Future: “The outstanding train on the L.M.S. route was the…”
A compound of ex ‘out’ + vocō ‘call’
Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰs ‘out’
Proto-Italic *eks
Latin ex ‘out’
Proto-Indo-European *wekʷ- ‘to speak’
Proto-Indo-European *wṓkʷs ‘speech, voice’
Proto-Italic *wōks ‘voice’
Latin vōx ‘voice, speech’
Latin vocō ‘call’
Every English word from Latin ēvocō
Today it means
verb To call out; to draw out or bring forth.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin ēvocō / evoke