Verbum Hodiernum: VOCO

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VOCO Dictionary Entry

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Today's word is the first-conjugation verb, VOCO (vocare), which is the verb based on the stem voc- that you can also see in the third-declension noun vox (=voc+s). You can find this same root in plenty of English words, too, such as "vocal," "vocabulary," "vocation," etc. and also in compounds such as "invocation" and "invoke," "provocation" and "provoke," etc. Via French, we end up with the words "vouch" and "voucher," and also "voice," which also derive ultimately from the Latin voc- root.

Here are some examples of today's word in Latin sayings and proverbs:

Furem praeda vocat.

Ipsa furem cura vocat.

Vocat labor ultimus omnes.

Omnia sub leges mors vocat atra suas.

Deos ridere credo, cum felix vocat.

Ficus ficus, ligonem ligonem vocat.

Ultio ultionem vocat, et caedes caedem.

Quo fata vocant.

Miseram servitutem falso pacem vocant.

Audit vocatus Apollo.

Vocatus et non vocatus Deus est.

In patria natus non est propheta vocatus.

Multi vocati, pauci electi.

Vitium impotens virtus vocatur.

Prosperum ac felix scelus virtus vocatur.

Qui semel furatur, semper fur vocatur.

Propter portanda vocatur asellus in aula.

Malo pauper vocari quam esse.

Antequam voceris, ne accesseris.

Ne ad pugnam vocet aquilam luscinia.

Lassa crudelitas non est vocanda clementia.

Manum admoventi sunt vocanda numina.

Fac interim aliquid ipse, dein deos voca.







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