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Is vocative a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word vocative is a Scrabble US word. The word vocative is worth 16 points in Scrabble:

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Is vocative a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word vocative is a Scrabble UK word and has 16 points:

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Is vocative a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word vocative is a Words With Friends word. The word vocative is worth 19 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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8-letter words (1 found)

VOCATIVE,

6-letter words (5 found)

ACTIVE,AVOCET,OCTAVE,VIVACE,VOTIVE,

5-letter words (11 found)

CAVIE,CIVET,COATE,COATI,COVET,EVICT,OVATE,VATIC,VITAE,VIVAT,VOICE,

4-letter words (28 found)

ATOC,CATE,CAVE,CIAO,CITE,CITO,CIVE,COAT,COIT,COTE,COVE,ETIC,IOTA,OCTA,OTIC,TACE,TACO,TICE,TOEA,VETO,VIAE,VICE,VITA,VITE,VIVA,VIVE,VIVO,VOTE,

3-letter words (36 found)

ACE,ACT,AIT,ATE,AVE,AVO,CAT,CIT,COT,EAT,ECO,ETA,EVO,ICE,ITA,OAT,OCA,OVA,TAE,TAI,TAO,TAV,TEA,TEC,TIC,TIE,TOC,TOE,VAC,VAE,VAT,VAV,VET,VIA,VIE,VOE,

2-letter words (13 found)

AE,AI,AT,EA,ET,IO,IT,OE,OI,TA,TE,TI,TO,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 95 words from vocative according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of vocative

vocative

Etymology

From Late Middle English [Term?], borrowed from Middle French vocatif, from Latin vocātīvus (“for calling”); a calque of Ancient Greek κλητῐκή (klētikḗ, “for calling; vocative case”) – from vocāre (“to call”), from Proto-Indo-European *wokʷ-, o-grade of *wekʷ- (“give vocal utterance, speak”). See Latin vōx.

Pronunciation

  • (General American) enPR: väk'ətĭv, vōk'ətĭv, IPA(key): /ˈvɑkətɪv/, /ˈvoʊkətɪv/
  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: vŏk'ətĭv, IPA(key): /ˈvɒkətɪv/

Adjective

vocative (comparative more vocative, superlative most vocative)

  1. Of or pertaining to calling; used in calling or vocation.
  2. (grammar) Used in address; appellative (said of that case or form of the noun, pronoun, or adjective, in which a person or thing is addressed). For example "Domine, O Lord"

Related terms

  • vocal

Translations

Noun

vocative (plural vocatives)

  1. (grammar) The vocative case
  2. (grammar) A word in the vocative case
  3. (rare) Something said to (or as though to) a particular person or thing; an entreaty, an invocation.

Translations

See also

  • interjection

Italian

Adjective

vocative

  1. feminine plural of vocativo

Latin

Adjective

vocātīve

  1. vocative masculine singular of vocātīvus

References

  • “vocative”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • vocative in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Romanian

Noun

vocative n pl

  1. plural of vocativ

Source: wiktionary.org