evocator

evocator (plural evocators)

1. Someone who evokes.
2. (medicine) A particular factor that controls the morphogenesis of the early embryo; the inductor.

• overcoat

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [eː.wɔˈkaː.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [e.voˈkaː.tor]

ēvocātor m (genitive ēvocātōris); third declension

1. One who calls troops to arms, recruiter, summoner
   • 63 BCE, Cicero, Catiline Orations Oratio in Catilinam Prima in Senatu Habita.27:

     Tūne eum — quem esse hostem comperistī, quem ducem bellī futūrum vidēs, quem expectārī imperātōrem in castrīs hostium sentīs, auctōrem sceleris, prīncipem coniūrātiōnis, ēvocātōrem servōrum et cīvium perditōrum — exīre patiēre, ut abs tē nōn ēmissus ex urbe, sed immissus in urbem esse videātur?

     Will you allow that man — whom you have discovered to be an enemy, whom you see will be a leader of war, whom you perceive is being awaited as a commander in the enemy’s camp, the author of this crime, the chief instigator of the conspiracy, the summoner of slaves and ruined citizens — will you allow him to depart, so that he may seem not to have been sent out of the city by you, but rather let loose against the city?
     (Note how Cicero uses three descriptive noun phrases (auctōrem, prīncipem, ēvocātōrem; author, chief, summoner) to list several charges against Catiline; these include summoning or recruiting the lowest classes of people to join the force against Rome.)

Third-declension noun.

ēvocātor

1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of ēvocō

• “evocator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “evocator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “evocator”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Borrowed from French évocateur, from Latin evocatorius.

evocator m or n (feminine singular evocatoare, masculine plural evocatori, feminine/neuter plural evocatoare)

1. evocative