“call” in Latin

sound of the voice, vox.

The calling, summoning, vocatus; vocatio; evocatio (in military service; e.g., a person takes up arms at the first call, aliquis arma capit, ubi primum bellicum cani audirit).

To come upon anybody’s calling, alicujus vocatu, or ab aliquo vocatum, or invitatum venire. Hence, especially,

the offer of an office, munus oblatum, from context also conditio: to receive a call, vocari ad munus: to receive a call to go to any place, quo vocari: he had a call to go to Göttingen, Gottingensis conditio ei offerebatur: to accept a call, munus oblatum suscipere; conditionem accipere: he accepted the call without hesitation, non dubitavit accipere, quod deferebatur: to refuse a call, conditionem recusare.

Impulse, impulsus, impolsio.

Visit, salutatio: salutationis officium (at Rome, the call of friends or clients in the morning, as a mark of respect toward persons of rank): daily and frequent calls of friends, qaotidiana amicorum assiduitas et frequentia: to make a call [Vid: to Call]: to put off a call, visendi curam differre (Tac.., Ann., 14, 6, 1): your call will be agreeable to all, carus omnibus expectatusque venies.

The calling a person or thing by name, nomenclatio.

name, nominare (also to give anything a proper name): appellare (to call or address anybody by his title): vocare: dicere (the former, to call anybody by his name, or, like dicere, to call anybody or anything according to what it is, i. e., to affix any epithet to it. ☞ OBSERVE, vocare generally with a substantive, dicere vith an adjective): nomen alicui dare, or indere, or imponere (to give a name to anybody): to call by name, aliquem nomine appellare: to call every thing by its own name, suo quamque rem nomine appellare: to call anybody or anything after something, ex aliqua re, or ex aliquo nominare aliquid, or aliquem: I call anything my omn, aliquid meum vindico: I am called (i. e., I have the name), mihi est nomen, with nominative, or dative, or (more seldom) genitive of the name [Vid: Name, s.] .

Invite, invitare (to request anybody’s participation in anything): invitare aliquem ad aliquid (e.g., ad bellum, ad quietem, etc.): ad opus solicitari (to be called upon to perform some deed).

Visit, visere: allcujus visendi causa venire: invisere: visitare (to call upon anybody to inquire after his health, etc.): intervisere (to call occasionally): adire, convenire (to call to speak on or to transact any business): salutare: salutatum or salutandi causa ad aliquem venire: ad aliquem salutandum venire (to call upon anybody, as a mark of respect).

TO CALL OUT (challenge to a combat), provocare (absolutely, Liv., 24, 8): provocare aliquem ad pugnam or ad certamen (especially from among a multitude).

CALL OUT (troops to military service), evocare, or evocare ad bellum.

Summon to appear at a place, postulare, citare (the former before a court, the latter of any verbal summons): on account of anything, alicujus rei or de re; patres in curiam citari jubere (to call the fathers to appear in the senate-house): nominatim citare or evocare (to summon anybody by his name to take military service).

CALL IN, advocare, to anybody, ad aliquem, to anything, ad or in aliquid: accire (to intend to call in, but so that the person called need not come immediately; therefore merely accire aliquem, not aliquem ad aliquem, etc.): arcessere (send for anybody and make him actually come; e.g., aliquem arcessi or arcessiri jubere): to call anybody in, intro vocare aliquem (invite him in): to call in a physician, medico uti: medicum morbo adhibere or admovere: medicum ad aegrotum adducere (of a person fetching him): to call in money, pecunias exigere.

CALL BACK, revocare: troops, signum receptui dare: to call anybody back to life, aliquem in vitam revocare: to call anything back to (people’s) memory, memoriam alicujus rei renovare or redintegrare: to call anything back to anybody’s mind (remind him of it), alicui aliquid in memoriam redigere or reducere; aliquem in memoriam alicujus rei renovare or reducere: aliquem ad memoriam alicujus rei excitare: to call anything back to one’s own memory, memoriam alicujus rei repetere or revocare.

CALL TOGETHER, convocare (also of animals; e.g., a hen, her chickens): to call a meeting of the people, in concionem vocare or convocare populum: also only convocare populum: to call the masters of the horse to a court-martial, praefectos equitum ad consilium convocare: to call the senate together, senatum cogere or convocare: cogere (PROP., to drive together or collect in a heap): congregare (to gather in a flock): conducere, contrahere (to concentrate, e.g., troops): copias in unum locum cogere, or conducere, or contrahere (to collect or assemble troops at one place).

CALL AWAY (or OFF), avocare: evocare (call anybody out of a party): vocare foras (call out of doors): anybody is called away, nunciatur alicui, ut prodeat: evocatur aliquis (Cic., De Or., 2, 86, 353): abducere (with or without de or ex loco: to fetch anybody away): adversum ire (especially of slaves, called adversitores, who fetched their masters; Vid: Ruhnken, Ter., Adelphi, 1, 1, 2): arcessere aliquem (seems principally to have been used for sending a slave, called arcessitor, to fetch anybody to a feast; Vid: Plin., Epistolae (Edition Gierig), 5, 6, 45): sevocare (to call aside).

CALL FOR. poscere (to demand in expectation of assent): deposcere: exposcere (to call for instantly or urgently): postulare: expostulare (to call for anything to which one is entitled; expostulare. urgently or seriously): flagitare: efflagitare (urgently and impetuously, especially if one has a real or pretended right, Cic., Milon., 34, p. init., makes a climax thus: misericordiam implorare, requirere, exposcere, flagitare): petere: expetere (to endeavor to obtain by means of entreaty): exigere (to demand or collect what one has a right to claim, as a debt, wages, also taxes; if by coercive means, persequi pecuniam): to call for by writing, per litteras flagitare.

CALL TO AN ACCOUNT. [Vid: ACCOUNT].

CALL FORTH, provocare, evocare: citare (to call anybody by name to appear; the conqueror, for instance, at Olympia; e.g., victorem Olympiae citari. In a similar manner it may be used for calling forth an actor on the stage, which kind of compliment, however, was not known to the ancients: revocare aliquem = to demand the repetition of any beautiful passage, to encore anybody): excitare aliquem (to call from below; e.g., the spirits of the world below, inferos).

CALL UPON = to solicit, invocare (entreat anybody about anything, as for aid. etc.; e.g., invocare musas, to invoke the muses): implorare aliquem. (to implore; e.g., implorare or invocare deos, to implore or invoke the gods, especially for help or assistance): implorare fidem alicujus; invocare subsidium alicujus: auxilium alicujus implorare et flagitare (to call upon anybody for protection, help, etc.). To call upon or appeal to the judge for relief in anything, ad judicis opem confugere. To call upon anybody for mercy, alicujus misericordiam implorare or exigere.

TO CALL A WITNESS, testari or testem facere aliquem, usually antestari aliquem (previously to the introduction of the cause, when the question was put, “licet antestari?” whereupon the assenting person presented the lap of his ear to be touched by the postulant).

TO CALL OUT, (a) challenge [Vid: before in this article]: (b) exclaim, exclamare: conclamare (especially of a multitude, but also of a single person, in which case it conveys the idea of raising a clamor immediately after any occurrence; Vid: Caes., B.G., 1, 47, Herzog): clamitare (to offer anything in the streets for sale).

CALL UP, (a) exsuscitare; expergefacere (e somno); excitare (e somno); suscitare somno or e quiete: (b) IMPROPR. = to rouse. To call up the spirits of anybody (encourage), excitare; incitare. stimulare aliquem, stimulos admovere alicui.

TO CALL ANY THING IN QUESTION, aliquid in dubium revocare.

TO CALL NAMES, alicui contumeliae causa cognomen dare.

CALL OVER, recensere: recitare: the senate, senatum recitare: one’s slaves, servos per nomina citare.

CALL ALOUD, clamare: vociferari. Truth calls aloud, veritas clamat.