Etymograph

English

invocator

Invocator comes from Late Latin invocātor ‘summoner, evoker’, and goes back to Latin invoc(ō).

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEinvoc(ō)
  2. Late Latinc. 200–600 CEinvocātor‘summoner, evoker’
  3. Englishearliest quotation 2007invocator

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEinvoc(ō)
  2. Late Latinc. 200–600 CEinvocātor‘summoner, evoker’
  3. Englishearliest quotation 2007invocator

Earliest quotation: 2007, Gary Gygax, The Anubis Murders: “The five others nearby likewise made ready to serve…”

Equivalent to invocate + -or

Proto-Indo-European *wekʷ- ‘to speak, to sound out’

Latin invocātus ‘invoked’

English invocate

Every English word from Latin invoc(ō)

Today it means

noun One who invocates the spirits of the dead.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Latin invoc(ō) / invocator

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