## Etymology
From Latin vocationem ('a calling, summons'), from vocare ('to call'), from vox ('voice'); originally a calling by God to a religious life.

## AI Etymology
Vocation comes from Latin vocationem ('a calling, summons'), from vocare ('to call'), from vox ('voice'); originally a calling by God to a religious life. The historical chain includes Latin vocationem, Latin vocare, and Latin vox. The quoted older senses, "a calling, summons", "to call", and "voice", supply the semantic anchors for vocation. The formation is best read as borrowed: the word vocation carries its older form-history into a compact English lexical shape. In present English it is used as a noun, "a strong sense of suitability for a particular career or calling". English derivatives include vocational and vocationally; related English forms include vocative, voice, invoke, and convocation. The result is a noun whose etymology preserves both the older form and the later English specialization.

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