advocatus

From advocō (“to call, summon”); a calque of Ancient Greek παράκλητος (paráklētos).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ad.wɔˈkaː.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ad̪.voˈkaː.t̪us]

advocātus m (genitive advocātī, feminine advocāta); second declension

1. One called to aid.
2. (law) advocate, attendant (friend who supports in a trial)
3. witness, supporter
4. mediator

Second-declension noun.

• advocāta
• advocātiō
• advocō

advocātus (feminine advocāta, neuter advocātum); first/second-declension participle

1. called, invited, summoned
2. consoled

First/second-declension adjective.

• “advocatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “advocatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “advocatus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “advocatus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “advocatus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin