advocatus

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ad.u̯oˈkaː.tus/, [äd̪u̯ɔˈkäːt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ad.voˈka.tus/, [äd̪voˈkäːt̪us]

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