noun
vŏcātus
Meaning
- a calling
vŏcātus, ūs, m. voco,
I. a calling, calling upon, summoning, invocation (only abl. in prose).
I. In gen.:
et ille et senatus frequens vocatu Drusi in curiam venit, Cic. de Or. 3, 1, 2: o numquam frustrata vocatus Hasta meos, my call, my invocation, Verg. A. 12, 95.—II. In partic., an invitation to dinner, etc.: misit qui diceret, cenaturum apud Caesarem vocatu ipsius, Suet Calig. 39.
Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
(vocātus, ūs) m
voco, a calling, call, summons, invocation.—Only abl sing. and acc plur.: vocatu Drusi venire: o numquam frustrata vocatūs Hasta meos, V.
In English words that came into English from vŏcātus
- foudvŏcātus