evocar
Portuguese, verb/e.voˈka(ʁ)/
evocar is spelled E-V-O-C-A-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese, the 40,025th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Evocar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to evoke (cause the manifestation of something (emotion, picture, etc.) in someone's mind or imagination)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “chamar (uma entidade sobrenatural)”.
What does evocar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to evoke (cause the manifestation of something (emotion, picture, etc.) in someone's mind or imagination)
- 2
to remember
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. chamar (uma entidade sobrenatural) 2. trazer à memória 3. passar de um tribunal a outro
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of evocar
- evoco first-person present singular
- evoquei first-person preterite singular
- evocado participle past
- c-qu alternation
- evocares infinitive second-person singular
- evocarmos first-person infinitive plural
- evocardes infinitive plural second-person
- evocarem infinitive plural third-person
- evocando gerund
- evocados masculine participle past
- evocada feminine participle past
- evocadas feminine participle past
- evocas indicative present second-person
- evoca indicative present singular
- evocamos first-person indicative plural
- evocais indicative plural present
- evocam indicative plural present
- evocava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce evocar?
- Brazil /e.voˈka(ʁ)/
- Brazil [e.voˈka(h)]
- Portugal /i.vu.ˈkaɾ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to evocar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is evocar in Portuguese?
evocar appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).