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Where does “revoke” come from?

Revoke comes from Middle French révoquer, from Latin revocare, combining the prefix re- with vox meaning "voice," ultimately from Proto-Indo-European wekʷ-.

revoke (English): To cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or...

Definitions

  1. To cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or...

Ancestry of “revoke”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Frenchrévoquer—
2Latinrevocāre—

Words derived from “revoke”

  • revoking
  • revokable
  • revoker
  • irrevokable
  • revokement
  • irrevokably
  • revokingly
Every word from Latin revocāre →