advocatus
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From advocō (“I call, summon”); a calque of Ancient Greek παράκλητος (paráklētos).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ad.u̯oˈkaː.tus/, [äd̪u̯ɔˈkäːt̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ad.voˈka.tus/, [äd̪voˈkäːt̪us]
Noun edit
advocātus m (genitive advocātī, feminine advocāta); second declension
- One called to aid.
- (law) advocate, attendant (friend who supports in a trial)
- witness, supporter
- mediator
Declension edit
Second-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | advocātus | advocātī |
| Genitive | advocātī | advocātōrum |
| Dative | advocātō | advocātīs |
| Accusative | advocātum | advocātōs |
| Ablative | advocātō | advocātīs |
| Vocative | advocāte | advocātī |
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- Catalan: advocat
- Dalmatian: abucut
- Dutch: advocaat
- Old French: avoe
- French: avoué
- Galician: avogado
- Italian: avvocato
- Maltese: avukat
- Norman: avocat
- Ladin: aucat
- Portuguese: advogado
- Romanian: advocat, avocat
- Russian: адвока́т m (advokát)
- Sardinian:
- Sicilian: abbucatu
- Spanish: abogado
- → Danish: advokat
- → Old French: advocat, avocat
- → German: Advokat
Participle edit
advocātus (feminine advocāta, neuter advocātum); first/second-declension participle
Declension edit
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | advocātus | advocāta | advocātum | advocātī | advocātae | advocāta | |
| Genitive | advocātī | advocātae | advocātī | advocātōrum | advocātārum | advocātōrum | |
| Dative | advocātō | advocātō | advocātīs | ||||
| Accusative | advocātum | advocātam | advocātum | advocātōs | advocātās | advocāta | |
| Ablative | advocātō | advocātā | advocātō | advocātīs | |||
| Vocative | advocāte | advocāta | advocātum | advocātī | advocātae | advocāta | |
References edit
- “advocatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “advocatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- advocatus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “advocatus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “advocatus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin