evoke

English

WOTD – 10 May 2010

Etymology

A borrowing from Latin ēvocō (“to call out, summon”) (possibly via French évoquer), from ex (“out”) and vocō (“call”). Akin to voice.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -əʊk
• IPA^(key): /ɪˈvəʊk/
• IPA^(key): /ɪˈvoʊk/

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Verb

1. To call out; to draw out or bring forth.
2. To cause the manifestation of something (emotion, picture, etc.) in someone's mind or imagination.

   Being here evokes long forgotten memories.

   Seeing this happen equally evokes fear and anger in me.

   The book evokes a detailed and lively picture of what life was like in the 19th century.

Derived terms

• evocable
• reëvoke

Related terms

• evocate

Translations

to cause the manifestation of

• Arabic: اِسْتَحْضَارَ (istaḥḍāra), اِسْتَدَعَى (istadaʕā)
• Armenian: հարուցել (hy) (harucʻel), առաջացնել (hy) (aṙaǰacʻnel)
• Bulgarian: предизвиквам (bg) (predizvikvam), събуждам (bg) (sǎbuždam)
• Catalan: evocar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 喚起／唤起 (zh) (huànqǐ)

• Czech: vyvolat (cs), vyvolávat (cs), evokovat
• Danish: fremmane, fremkalde, vække (da)
• Dutch: oproepen (nl)
• Esperanto: elvoki
• Finnish: herättää (fi)
• French: évoquer (fr), remémorer (fr)
• Galician: evocar
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• German: hervorrufen (de)
• Hebrew: עורר
• Hungarian: felidéz (hu)
• Interlingua: evocar, rememorar (ia)
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} evocare (it), ^{(please verify)} rammemorare, ^{(please verify)} rammentare (it), rammemorare ("rammemorarsi" exists)
• Japanese: 喚起する (かんきする, kanki-suru)
• Latin: ēvōcō
• Norwegian: framkalle
• Polish: wywoływać (pl), przywoływać (pl)
• Portuguese: evocar (pt)
• Russian: вызыва́ть (ru) impf (vyzyvátʹ), вы́звать (ru) pf (výzvatʹ)
• Spanish: evocar (es), rememorar (es)
• Swedish: frammana (sv)