vocans

Present active participle of vocō (“call, invoke”)

vocāns (genitive vocantis); third-declension one-termination participle

1. calling, invoking, inviting, summoning, speaking of
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.460–461:

     Hinc exaudīrī vōcēs et verba vocantīs
     vīsa virī, nox cum terrās obscūra tenēret.

     [Dido’s shrine honoring Sychaeus:] From here, it seemed, she was hearing voices, and words from her [dead] husband calling [her name], whenever dark night held the lands.

2. naming, designating
3. bringing or putting into a state or condition

Third-declension participle.

¹When used purely as an adjective.

• "vocans", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)