advocate, attorney, barrister, solicitor, lawyer, counsel · advocate (person who speaks in support of something) · government clerk exercising jurisdictional authority
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *wekʷ-der. Proto-Indo-European *wokʷ-der. Latin vocō Latin advocō Latin advocātuslbor. ▲ German Advokatsl. ▲ French avocatsl. Polish adwokat Learned borrowing from Latin advocātus. Etymology 1, noun sense 2 is a semantic loan from German Advokat and French avocat. First attested in 1559.
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *wekʷ-der. Proto-Indo-European *wokʷ-der. Latin vocō Latin advocō Latin advocātusbor. Old French advocatbor. Middle High German advocāte German Advokatder. ▲ German Advokatder. Yiddish אַדוואָקאַט (advokat)der. ▲ German Advokatbor. Russian адвока́т (advokát)der. ▲ Latin advocātuslbor. ▲…