advocate

• vt.擁護する、主張する、弁護する
• n. 擁護者; 支持者; 弁護士

ad-「～する」、-voc「言う」、語源的にはvoiceと同じ。

advocate

advocate: [14] Etymologically, advocate contains the notion of ‘calling’, specifically of calling someone in for advice or as a witness. This was the meaning of the Latin verb advocāre (formed from vocāre ‘call’, from which English also gets vocation). Its past participle, advocātus, came to be used as a noun, originally meaning ‘legal witness or adviser’, and later ‘attorney’.

In Old French this became avocat, the form in which English borrowed it; it was later relatinized to advocate. The verb advocate does not appear until the 17th century. The word was also borrowed into Dutch, as advocaat, and the compound advocaatenborrel, literally ‘lawyer’s drink’, has, by shortening, given English the name for a sweetish yellow concoction of eggs and brandy.
=> invoke, revoke, vocation

advocate (n.)

mid-14c., "one whose profession is to plead cases in a court of justice," a technical term from Roman law, from Old French avocat "barrister, advocate, spokesman," from Latin advocatus "one called to aid; a pleader, advocate," noun use of past participle of advocare "to call" (as witness or advisor) from ad- "to" (see ad-) + vocare "to call," related to vocem (see voice (n.)). Also in Middle English as "one who intercedes for another," and "protector, champion, patron." Feminine forms advocatess, advocatrice were in use in 15c.

advocate (v.)

1640s, from advocate (n.). Related: Advocated; advocating; advocation.

1. He is a keen advocate of park-and-ride schemes.

彼は「停車して乗り換え」計画の熱烈な支持者だ。

2.The group does not advocate the use of violence.

この団体は暴力の使用を支持していない。

3.Opten the interviewer will need to play devil 's advocate in order to get a discusion going.

インタビュアーはインタビューを継続するためにわざと異を唱える必要があることが多い。

4.He is a strident advocate of nuclear power.

彼は原子力を発展させる堅固な支持者である。

5.He got the best advocate in town to defend him.

彼は町の最高の弁護士に弁護してもらった。