different between vocation vs vocative

English

Etymology

From Middle English vocacioun, from Old French vocation, from Latin voc?ti?.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /vo??ke???n/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /v???ke???n/
• Hyphenation: vo?ca?tion

Noun

vocation (countable and uncountable, plural vocations)

1. An inclination to undertake a certain kind of work, especially a religious career; often in response to a perceived summons; a calling.
2. An occupation for which a person is suited, trained or qualified.

Hypernyms

• job
• labour
• occupation
• work

Derived terms

• vocational

Related terms

• vocative

Translations

French

Etymology

From Old French vocation, borrowed from Latin voc?ti?, voc?ti?nem.

Pronunciation

Noun

vocation f (plural vocations)

1. vocation (calling)
2. vocation (employment; career; work)

Related terms

• vocal
• vocatif
• voix

Further reading

• “vocation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vocatio, vocationem.

Noun

vocation f (oblique plural vocations, nominative singular vocation, nominative plural vocations)

1. call; calling; appeal
2. (specifically, euphemistic) passing away; death; an instance of dying

English

Etymology

From Late Middle English [Term?], borrowed from Middle French vocatif, from Latin voc?t?vus (“for calling”); a calque of Ancient Greek ??????? (kl?tik?, “for calling; vocative case”) – from voc?re (“to call”), from Proto-Indo-European *wok?-, o-grade of *wek?- (“give vocal utterance, speak”). See Latin v?x.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?v?k?t?v/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?v?k?t?v/

Adjective

vocative (comparative more vocative, superlative most vocative)

1. Of or pertaining to calling; used in calling or vocation.
2. (grammar) Used in address; appellative (said of that case or form of the noun, pronoun, or adjective, in which a person or thing is addressed). For example "Domine, O Lord"

Related terms

• vocal

Translations

Noun

vocative (plural vocatives)

1. (grammar) The vocative case
2. (grammar) A word in the vocative case
3. (rare) Something said to (or as though to) a particular person or thing; an entreaty, an invocation.
   • 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Letter 50:

     [T]he two latter will hardly come neither, if they think it will be to hear your whining vocatives.

Translations

See also

• interjection

Italian

Adjective

vocative

1. feminine plural of vocativo

Latin

Adjective

voc?t?ve

1. vocative masculine singular of voc?t?vus

References

• vocative in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vocative in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Romanian

Noun

vocative n pl

1. plural of vocativ