evocator

English

Noun

evocator (plural evocators)

1. Someone who evokes.
2. (medicine) A particular factor that controls the morphogenesis of the early embryo; the inductor.

Anagrams

• overcoat

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [eː.wɔˈkaː.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [e.voˈkaː.tor]

Noun

ēvocātor m (genitive ēvocātōris); third declension

1. One who calls troops to arms, recruiter, summoner
   • 63 BCE, Cicero, Catiline Orations Oratio in Catilinam Prima in Senatu Habita.27:

     Tūne eum — quem esse hostem comperistī, quem ducem bellī futūrum vidēs, quem expectārī imperātōrem in castrīs hostium sentīs, auctōrem sceleris, prīncipem coniūrātiōnis, ēvocātōrem servōrum et cīvium perditōrum — exīre patiēre, ut abs tē nōn ēmissus ex urbe, sed immissus in urbem esse videātur?

     Will you allow that man — whom you have discovered to be an enemy, whom you see will be a leader of war, whom you perceive is being awaited as a commander in the enemy’s camp, the author of this crime, the chief instigator of the conspiracy, the summoner of slaves and ruined citizens — will you allow him to depart, so that he may seem not to have been sent out of the city by you, but rather let loose against the city?
     (Note how Cicero uses three descriptive noun phrases (auctōrem, prīncipem, ēvocātōrem; author, chief, summoner) to list several charges against Catiline; these include summoning or recruiting the lowest classes of people to join the force against Rome.)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	ēvocātor	ēvocātōrēs
genitive	ēvocātōris	ēvocātōrum
dative	ēvocātōrī	ēvocātōribus
accusative	ēvocātōrem	ēvocātōrēs
ablative	ēvocātōre	ēvocātōribus
vocative	ēvocātor	ēvocātōrēs

Verb

ēvocātor

1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of ēvocō

References

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

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French évocateur, from Latin evocatorius.

Adjective

evocator m or n (feminine singular evocatoare, masculine plural evocatori, feminine/neuter plural evocatoare)

1. evocative

Declension

Declension of evocator

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	evocator		evocatoare		evocatori	evocatoare
	definite	evocatorul		evocatoarea		evocatorii	evocatoarele
genitive- dative	indefinite	evocator		evocatoare		evocatori	evocatoare
	definite	evocatorului		evocatoarei		evocatorilor	evocatoarelor