Where does “avocational” come from?
avocational (English) comes from Romanian avocat, from French avocat, from Old French avocat, from Latin advocātus, from Latin advocō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în — in.
avocational (English): Of, relating to, or being an avocation
Definitions
- Of, relating to, or being an avocation
Ancestry of “avocational”, step by step
avocational traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Romanian avocat
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romanian | avocat | lawyer, attorney, barrister |
| 2 | French | avocat | lawyer; attorney; avocado |
| 3 | Old French | avocat | — |
| 4 | Latin | advocātus | One called to aid |
| 5 | Latin | advocō | to call, invite or summon someone to a place, invoke |
| 6 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 7 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 8 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 9 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |
via English avocation
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | avocation | A calling away; a diversion; A hobby or... |
| 2 | Latin | āvocātiō | A distraction |
| 3 | Latin | āvocō | to call off or away, withdraw, divert, remove, separate, turn |
| 4 | English | avocate | To call off or away; to withdraw; to transfer to... |
| 5 | Latin | avoco | I call off or away, withdraw, divert, remove,... |
| 6 | Latin | voco | I call, summon, beckon; I name, designate; I... |
| 7 | Latin | vox | voice |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | wōks | voice |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | wṓkʷs | voice, speech |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | wekʷ- | to speak, to sound out |