evocar

Borrowed from Latin ēvocāre (“to call out, to summon”).

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ə.βuˈka]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ə.voˈka]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [e.voˈkaɾ]
• Homophone: evocà
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

evocar (first-person singular present evoco, first-person singular preterite evoquí, past participle evocat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /ɔ/

1. (transitive) to evoke

   Synonym: suggerir

• “evocar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “evocar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “evocar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “evocar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Learned borrowing from Latin ēvocare (“to call out, to summon”).

evocar (first-person singular present evoco, first-person singular preterite evoquei, past participle evocado)

1. to evoke

Borrowed from Latin ēvocāre (“to call out, to summon”), from ex (“out”) + vocō (“to call”), from vōx (“voice”), from Proto-Indo-European *wōkʷs (“speech, voice”).

evocar (first-person singular present evoco, first-person singular preterite evoquei, past participle evocado)

1. to evoke (cause the manifestation of something (emotion, picture, etc.) in someone's mind or imagination)
2. to remember

   Synonyms: lembrar, recordar

   Antonyms: esquecer, deslembrar

• “evocar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
• “evocar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

Borrowed from Latin ēvocāre (“to callout, I summon”), from ex (“out”) + vocō (“to call”), from vōx (“voice”), from Proto-Indo-European *wōkʷs (“speech, voice”).

• IPA^(key): /eboˈkaɾ/ [e.β̞oˈkaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: e‧vo‧car

evocar (first-person singular present evoco, first-person singular preterite evoqué, past participle evocado)

1. to evoke, to conjure

   Synonym: conjurar

• “evocar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024