vocabant

vocabant is a Latin form of voco, meaning “call, summon; name”. It is the 3rd person plural imperfect active indicative.

Found 48 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Letters to his Friends 9.22.2: … ieno nomine; cur non suo potius? si turpe est, ne alieno quidem; si non est, suo potius. caudam antiqui penem vocabant, ex quo est propter similitudinem penicillus; at hodie penis est in obscenis. at vero Piso ille Frugi in Anna …

Suetonius, Nero 20.3: … uuentutis undique elegit, qui diuisi in factiones plausuum genera condiscerent — bombos et imbrices et testas uocabant — operamque nauarent cantanti sibi, insignes pinguissima coma et excellentissimo cultu, pueris ac sine anulo …

All forms of voco (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.