# evocar
## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ēvocāre (“to call out, to summon”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [ə.βuˈka]
* IPA: (Balearic) [ə.voˈka]
* IPA: (Valencia) [e.voˈkaɾ]
* Homophone: evocà
* Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

### Verb

evocar (first-person singular present evoco, first-person singular preterite evoquí, past participle evocat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /ɔ/
* (transitive) to evoke
    Synonym: suggerir

#### Related terms

* advocar
* convocar
* evocació
* invocar
* provocar
* revocar

### Further reading

* “evocar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “evocar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “evocar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “evocar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Galician
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin ēvocare (“to call out, to summon”).

### Verb

evocar (first-person singular present evoco, first-person singular preterite evoquei, past participle evocado)
* to evoke

#### Conjugation

$^1$Less recommended.

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ēvocāre (“to call out, to summon”), from ex (“out”) + vocō (“to call”), from vōx (“voice”), from Proto-Indo-European *wōkʷs (“speech, voice”).

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /e.voˈka(ʁ)/ [e.voˈka(h)]
* (Brazil) IPA: /e.voˈka(ʁ)/ [e.voˈka(h)]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /e.voˈka(ɾ)/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /e.voˈka(ʁ)/ [e.voˈka(χ)]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /e.voˈka(ɻ)/
* (Portugal) IPA: /i.vuˈkaɾ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /i.vuˈkaɾ/
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /i.buˈkaɾ/ [i.βuˈkaɾ]
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /i.vuˈka.ɾi/

### Verb

evocar (first-person singular present evoco, first-person singular preterite evoquei, past participle evocado)
* to evoke (cause the manifestation of something (emotion, picture, etc.) in someone's mind or imagination)
* to remember
    Synonyms: lembrar, recordar
    Antonyms: esquecer, deslembrar

#### Conjugation

$^1$Brazilian Portuguese. $^2$European Portuguese.

#### Related terms

* advogar
* convocar
* evocação
* evocado
* evocativo
* evocatório
* evocável
* invocar
* revogar
* voz

### References

* “evocar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
* “evocar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ēvocāre (“to callout, I summon”), from ex (“out”) + vocō (“to call”), from vōx (“voice”), from Proto-Indo-European *wōkʷs (“speech, voice”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /eboˈkaɾ/ [e.β̞oˈkaɾ]
* Rhymes: -aɾ
* Syllabification: e‧vo‧car

### Verb

evocar (first-person singular present evoco, first-person singular preterite evoqué, past participle evocado)
* to evoke, to conjure
    Synonym: conjurar

#### Conjugation

$^1$Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language. $^2$Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.

#### Related terms

* abogar
* convocar
* evocación
* invocar
* provocar
* revocar

#### Further reading

* “evocar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10