vocans

Latin

Etymology

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

Participle

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

Declension

Third-declension participle.

	singular			plural
	masc./fem.	neuter		masc./fem.	neuter
nominative	vocāns			vocantēs	vocantia
genitive	vocantis			vocantium
dative	vocantī			vocantibus
accusative	vocantem	vocāns		vocantēs vocantīs	vocantia
ablative	vocante vocantī1			vocantibus
vocative	vocāns			vocantēs	vocantia

¹When used purely as an adjective.

References

• "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)