köken: Learned borrowing from Byzantine Greek δικήγορος (dikḗgoros), from late Hellenistic / Koine Greek, or medieval 6th century attested oblique cases (e.g. genitive δικηγόρου (dikēgórou), dative, δικηγόρῳ (dikēgórōi)), both suitable for a noun in -ήγορος or -ηγόρος, from Ancient Greek δίκη (díkē, “custom, law, judgment”) + -ήγορος (-ḗgoros), the latter suffix from ἀγορεύω (agoreúō, “to proclaim (in…
köken: Sino-Korean word from 辯護士 (“lawyer, solicitor, counsel, attorney, barrister”), an orthographic borrowing from Japanese 弁護士(べんごし) (bengoshi). Cognate with Jeju 벤호사 (benhosa), Hakka 辯護士 /辩护士 (phien-fu-sṳ), and Min Nan 辯護士 /辩护士 (piān-hō͘-sū, piǎn-hō͘-sǐr).
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.