different between vocative vs evocative

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

English

Etymology

From Latin ?voc?t?vus (“pertaining to summoning”)

Adjective

evocative (comparative more evocative, superlative most evocative)

1. that evokes (brings to mind) a memory, mood, feeling or image; redolent or reminiscent

Synonyms

• reminiscent
• redolent
• remindful
• resonant
• suggestive

Translations

See also

• expressive
• vivid
• graphic
• powerful
• haunting
• moving
• poignant

Italian

Adjective

evocative

1. feminine plural of evocativo