Where does “advocate” come from?
Advocate comes from Old French advocat, from Latin advocatus meaning "one summoned to aid," derived from the Latin verb advoco, composed of the prefix ad- and the root wekʷ- meaning "to speak."
advocate (English): Someone whose job is to speak for someone's case...
Definitions
- Someone whose job is to speak for someone's case...
Ancestry of “advocate”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old French | advocat | — |
| 2 | Latin | advocātus | One called to aid |
| 3 | Latin | advocō | to call, invite or summon someone to a place, invoke |
| 4 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 5 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 6 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 7 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |