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 revocāreEvery word from Middle French révoquer