alvoki

Esperanto

Etymology

From al- + voki.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /alˈvoki/
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  • Hyphenation: al‧vo‧ki
  • Rhymes: -oki

Verb

alvoki (present alvokas, past alvokis, future alvokos, conditional alvokus, volitive alvoku)

  1. to call, call upon; to summon; to hail; to invoke
    • E. L. Kearney (translator), La Aventuroj de Alicio en Mirlando (Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland) by Lewis Carroll, Chapter 11,
      Alvoku la unuan atestanton
      Call the first witness
    • William Morrison and William W. Mann (translators), Doktoro Jekyll kaj Sinjoro Hyde (Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde) by Robert Louis Stevenson,
      Mi do ordigis mian vestaron kiel eble plej bone, kaj, alvokante al pasanta fiakro, mi veturigis min al hotelo sur Portland Street, kies nomon mi per ia hazardo memoris.
      Thereupon, I arranged my clothes as best I could, and summoning a passing hansom, drove to an hotel in Portland Street, the name of which I chanced to remember.
    • Stellano (translator), “La Horlo” (“Le Horla”) by Guy de Maupassant, in Franko Luin (ed.), Uzino 4,
      Tiu, kiun foradmonis maltrankvilaj pastroj; kiun la sorĉistoj alvokis dum la mallumaj noktoj, ne vidante ankoraŭ ĝian aperon [...]
      The one that anxious priests exorcised; that sorcerors invoked on dark nights but had not yet seen appear

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