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vocas

vocas is a Latin form of vox, meaning “voice, word; sound”.

It can also be a form of voco, “call, summon; name”. It is the 2nd person singular present active indicative or accusative plural feminine adjective.

Found 114 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro S. Roscio Amerino 75: … avaritia erumpat audacia, inde omnia scelera ac maleficia gignuntur; vita autem haec rustica quam tu agrestem vocas parsimoniae, diligentiae, iustitiae magistra est.

Silius Italicus, Punica 12.497: ‘Quo, mens aegra, uocas? rursusne pericula sumam

Augustine, Confessiones 11.9: Vocas itaque nos ad intellegendum uerbum, deum apud te deum, quod sempiterne dicitur et eo sempiterne dicuntur omni …

All forms of vox (declension 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.