voked
/voʊkt/
verb
Origin
Latin
vocare — to call
Overview
Meaning Now
- Past tense and past participle of 'voke', a rare or dialectal variant of 'invoke' or 'evoke', often used in non-standard or humorous contexts.
Language path
Latin → Middle French → English
Earliest form
voked
Earliest period
19th century
Journey
The term represents an aphaeretic shortening common in informal speech where unstressed initial syllables (like 'in-' or 'e-' in invoke/evoke) are dropped to streamline pronunciation.
Evolution
- Latin
vocare
“to call”
Root verb for various derivatives.
- Middle French
invoquer
“to call upon”
Direct ancestor of English 'invoke'.
- Early Modern English
invoke
“to call upon or summon”
- 19th Century English
voked
“called or summoned”
Aphaeretic truncation of 'invoked' or 'evoked'.
Connections
Word parts
vok-
root
to call
-ed
ending
past tense marker
Related across languages
French
invoquer
to invoke
Latin
vocatio
a calling
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