avocat

Cf. French avocat>

avocat (plural avocats)

1. An advocate, a lawyer

• avocat in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1914

• IPA^(key): /a.vɔ.ka/

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Borrowed from Latin advocātus. Compare the past participle avoué.

avocat m (plural avocats, feminine avocate)

1. (law) lawyer; attorney

• Turkish: avukat

Borrowed from Spanish avocado.[1]

avocat m (plural avocats)

1. avocado

• poire-avocat / poire avocat / poire d'avocat
• poire-alligator / poire alligator / poire d'alligator

• → Khmer: អាវ៉ូកាត៍ (ʾaavoukaa)
• → Norman: avocat

• “avocat” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• aucat

From Latin advocatus.

avocat m (plural avocac)

1. lawyer, solicitor
2. advocate

āvocat

1. third-person singular present active indicative of āvocō

Borrowed from Latin advocātus (“advocate”).

avocat m (plural avocats)

1. (Jersey) advocate
2. (Jersey, law) barrister

• homme d'affaithes

Borrowed from French avocat, from Spanish aguacate, from Nahuatl āhuacatl. Influenced by confusion with Spanish abogado (“lawyer”).

avocat m (plural avocats)

1. (Jersey) avocado

• avocatchi (“avocado tree”)

From Latin advocatus.

avocat m (plural avocats)

1. lawyer, attorney

From Spanish avocado.

avocat m (plural avocats)

1. avocado

From Latin advocātus (“advocate”).

avocat m

1. lawyer

• advocat (rare)

Borrowed from French avocat, Latin advocatus.

• IPA^(key): /a.voˈkat/

avocat m (plural avocați, feminine equivalent avocată)

1. (law) lawyer, attorney, barrister

• apărător
• procator (regional, in Transylvania)
• defensor, vechil (dated)

• a se face avocatul cuiva, a fi avocatul cuiva
• avocațial
• avocațional
• avocățel
• avocățesc

• avocatură

• lege

• avocat in DEX online - Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)