convocatio

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?

Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm

Proto-Italic *kom

Proto-Italic *kom-

Latin con-

Proto-Indo-European *wekʷ-der.

Proto-Indo-European *wokʷ-der.

Latin vocō

Latin convocō

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin convocātiō

From convocō (“to summon”) + -tiō. Compare typologically Ancient Greek ἐκκλησία (ekklēsía), σύγκλητος (súnklētos) (akin to καλέω (kaléō)); Russian созы́в (sozýv) (akin to звать (zvatʹ)).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɔn.wɔˈkaː.ti.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [koɱ.voˈkat.t͡si.o]

Noun

convocātiō f (genitive convocātiōnis); third declension

1. assembly, convocation, rallying
   • 106 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Post Reditum in Senatu 38:

     nulla ad rem publicam defendendam populi Romani convocatio

     no rallying of the Roman people for the defense of their Republic

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	convocātiō	convocātiōnēs
genitive	convocātiōnis	convocātiōnum
dative	convocātiōnī	convocātiōnibus
accusative	convocātiōnem	convocātiōnēs
ablative	convocātiōne	convocātiōnibus
vocative	convocātiō	convocātiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: convocació
• Czech: konvokace
• English: convocation
• French: convocation
• Italian: convocazione
• Portuguese: convocação
• Romanian: convocațiune
• Spanish: convocación

References

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