advocatus

Latin

Etymology

From advocō (“I call, summon”); a calque of Ancient Greek παράκλητος (paráklētos).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ad.u̯oˈkaː.tus/, [äd̪u̯ɔˈkäːt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ad.voˈka.tus/, [äd̪voˈkäːt̪us]

Noun

advocātus m (genitive advocātī, feminine advocāta); second declension

1. One called to aid.
2. (law) advocate, attendant (friend who supports in a trial)
3. witness, supporter
4. mediator

Declension

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

• advocāta
• advocātiō
• advocō

Descendants

• 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:
  • Campidanese: abbogau
  • Logudorese: abbocadu, avvocadu
• Sicilian: abbucatu
• Spanish: abogado
  • → English: abogado
  • → Cebuano: abogado
  • → Hiligaynon: abogado
  • → Bikol Central: abogado
  • → Tagalog: abogado
  • → Asturian: abogáu
• → Danish: advokat
• → Old French: advocat, avocat
  • → English: advocate, avocat
  • French: avocat
    • → Ottoman Turkish: آووقات (avokat)
      • Turkish: avukat
  • → Middle Irish: abcóit
    • Irish: abhcóide
• → German: Advokat

Participle

advocātus (feminine advocāta, neuter advocātum); first/second-declension participle

1. called, invited, summoned
2. consoled

Declension

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

• “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