invocar
Portuguese, verb/ĩ.voˈka(ʁ)/
invocar is spelled I-N-V-O-C-A-R (7 letters) and appears 2.4 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 19,941st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Invocar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to invoke” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “pedir a alguém o auxílio de”.
What does invocar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to invoke
- 2
to evoke
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. pedir a alguém o auxílio de 2. suplicar 3. chamar (entidades sobrenaturais), evocar 4. desafiar; olhar de maneira desafiadora; incomodar
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 invocar
- invoco first-person present singular
- invoquei first-person preterite singular
- invocado participle past
- c-qu alternation
- invocares infinitive second-person singular
- invocarmos first-person infinitive plural
- invocardes infinitive plural second-person
- invocarem infinitive plural third-person
- invocando gerund
- invocados masculine participle past
- invocada feminine participle past
- invocadas feminine participle past
- invocas indicative present second-person
- invoca indicative present singular
- invocamos first-person indicative plural
- invocais indicative plural present
- invocam indicative plural present
- invocava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce invocar?
- Brazil /ĩ.voˈka(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ĩ.voˈka(h)]
- /ĩ.voˈka(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to invocar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is invocar in Portuguese?
invocar appears 2.4 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).