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”

Every word from Latin revocāre →Every word from Middle French révoquer →