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convoco
convoco
Latin
Etymology
con- + vocō (“I call, summon, invoke”)
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkon.wo.koː/, [ˈkɔn.wɔ.koː]
Verb
convocō (present infinitive convocāre, perfect active convocāvī, supine convocātum); first conjugation
Inflection
Descendants
References
- convoco in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- convoco in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “convoco”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to unite isolated individuals into a society: dissipatos homines in (ad) societatem vitae convocare (Tusc. 1. 25. 62)
- to summon an assembly of the people: convocare populi concilium and populum ad concilium
- to call a meeting of the senate: senatum vocare, convocare
- to issue a general call to arms: omnes ad arma convocare
- to hold a council of war: consilium habere, convocare
- to unite isolated individuals into a society: dissipatos homines in (ad) societatem vitae convocare (Tusc. 1. 25. 62)