From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
*** Alternative forms
- [en] [archaic or nonstandard]
*** Etymology
[en] From [en], [enm], borrowed from [en], from [en], itself from [la]. [en].
*** Pronunciation
- [in'vōk] , [en]
- [in'vōk] , [en]
- [en]
*** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To call upon (a person , a god ) for help , assistance or guidance .
2. [en] To solicit , petition for, appeal to a favorable attitude.
3. * [en]
4. * [en]
5. [en] To call another ship.
6. [en] To call to mind (something) for some purpose.
7. * [en]
8. * [en]
9. * [en]
10. [en] To appeal for validation to a (notably cited) authority .
11. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1969 | author=Philip Ziegler | title=The Black Death | page=21 | publisher=Folio Society | year_published=2007
|passage=He INVOKED cadaveric poisoning as the reason for the high death rate
among priests and monks [...]}}
1. [en] To conjure up with incantation s.
2. [en] To bring about as an inevitable consequence.
3. [en] To cause (a program or subroutine ) to execute.
4. * [en]
5. * [en]
**** Derived terms
{{col|en|uninvoked|misinvoke|reinvoke|invokingly
|invoker|invokable|uninvokable}}
**** Related terms
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
**** Translations
[call upon someone for help etc.]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Danish: [da] , [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de]
- Greek:
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Italian: [it]
- Latin: [la]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Ngazidja Comorian: [zdj]
- Old Norse: [non]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Sanskrit: [sa]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
[trans-bottom]
[appeal for validation to a (notably cited) authority]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Italian: [it]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Russian: [ru]
[trans-bottom]
[conjure up by incantation]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Latin: [la]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Maori: [mi]
- Russian: [ru] ( [ru] )
- Spanish: [es]
[trans-bottom]
[bring about as an inevitable consequence]
- Danish: [da] , [da]
- Dutch: over (zich) afroepen
- Finnish: [fi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk]
- Russian: [ru]
[trans-bottom]
[solicit, petition for]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Danish: [da] til
- Dutch: beroep doen op
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Italian: [it]
- Russian: [ru]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
[trans-bottom]
[(computing) cause to execute]
- Chinese:
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Russian: [ru]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
[trans-bottom]
[checktrans-top]
- German: [de]
- Spanish: [es]
[trans-bottom]
**** Further reading
- [R:Webster 1913]
- [R:Century 1911]