vocatio

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *wekʷ-der.

Proto-Indo-European *wokʷ-der.

Latin vocō

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin vocātiō

From vocō + -tiō.

Noun

vocātiō f (genitive vocātiōnis); third declension

1. summons
2. invitation, bidding
3. calling, vocation

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	vocātiō	vocātiōnēs
genitive	vocātiōnis	vocātiōnum
dative	vocātiōnī	vocātiōnibus
accusative	vocātiōnem	vocātiōnēs
ablative	vocātiōne	vocātiōnibus
vocative	vocātiō	vocātiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: vocació
• English: vocation
• French: vocation
• Italian: vocazione
• Portuguese: vocação
• Romanian: vocație, vocațiune
• Spanish: vocación

References

• “vocatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vocatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "vocatio", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “vocatio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “vocatio”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin