Meaning of voco | Babel Free

Definitions

1. to call, summon, beckon (with one's voice)
   conjugation-1, transitive
2. to invoke, summon, call upon (a person, especially a god)
   broadly, conjugation-1, transitive
3. to summon, convene, call together
   broadly, conjugation-1, transitive
4. to name, designate
   conjugation-1, transitive
5. to bring or put (into a state or condition)
   conjugation-1

Equivalents

Examples

“[…] ultro / hortantem et fessas ad pabula nota vocantem”

[…] freely / calling them and exhorting the weary insects to eat their familiar food.

“Vāde age, nāte! Vocā Zephyrōs et lābere pennīs, ….”

[Jupiter to Mercury:] “Go, [fly] away, my son! Invoke the Zephyrs and glide on the wings [of your sandals], ….”

“Cn. Fuluius Centumalus P. Sulpicius Galba consules cum idibus Martiis magistratum inissent, senatu in Capitolium uocato, de re publica, de administratione belli, de prouinciis exercitibusque patres consuluerunt.”

When the consuls Gnaeus Fulvius Centumalus and Publius Sulpicius Galba took up the magistracy on the Ides of March, they summoned the senate to the Capitoline Hill and consulted the senators on issues regarding the state, the handling of the war, the provinces and the armies.

“vocare in dubium”

to call into question

CEFR level