avocatio

Latin

Etymology

From avoco (“I call off”) +‎ -ātiō (“-tion”, noun-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /a.u̯oˈkaː.ti.oː/, [äu̯ɔˈkäːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a.voˈkat.t͡si.o/, [ävoˈkät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

avocātiō f (genitive avocātiōnis); third declension

1. A distraction.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	avocātiō	avocātiōnēs
Genitive	avocātiōnis	avocātiōnum
Dative	avocātiōnī	avocātiōnibus
Accusative	avocātiōnem	avocātiōnēs
Ablative	avocātiōne	avocātiōnibus
Vocative	avocātiō	avocātiōnēs

Descendants

• English: avocation
• Italian: avocazione

References

• “avocatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “avocatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• avocatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.