different between abstention vs veto

English

Etymology

First attested in 1521. Borrowed from French abstention, from Late Latin abst?nti? from Latin abstin?? (“withhold, to abstain”)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?b?st?n.?n?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /æb?st?n.?n?/, /?b?st?n.?n?/, /æb?st?n.t??n?/, /?b?st?n.t??n?/

Noun

abstention (countable and uncountable, plural abstentions)

1. (obsolete) The act of restraining oneself. [Attested from the early 16^th century until the med 17^th century.]
2. The act of abstaining; a holding aloof; refraining from. [First attested in the early 17^th century.]
3. The act of declining to vote on a particular issue. [First attested in the late 19^th century.]
4. Non-participation in the political world; as a country avoiding international affairs.

Derived terms

• abstentious

Translations

See also

• abstinence

References

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin abstenti?, abstenti?nem, from Latin abstentus, from abstine?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ap.st??.sj??/

Noun

abstention f (plural abstentions)

1. abstention

Related terms

• abstenir
• abstinence

Further reading

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

English

Etymology

From Latin vet? (“I forbid”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?vi?t??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?vi?to?/
  • Flapping is optional: IPA^(key): [?vi??o?] or IPA^(key): [?vi?t?o?].
• Rhymes: -i?t??

Noun

veto (plural vetoes or vetos)

1. A political right to disapprove of (and thereby stop) the process of a decision, a law etc.
2. An invocation of that right.
3. An authoritative prohibition or negative; a forbidding; an interdiction.

   • This contemptuous veto of her husband's on any intimacy with her family.

Translations

Verb

veto (third-person singular simple present vetoes, present participle vetoing, simple past and past participle vetoed)

1. (transitive) To use a veto against.

Translations

Anagrams

• Vote, to've, vote

Catalan

Verb

veto

1. first-person singular present indicative form of vetar

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?v?to]

Noun

veto n

1. veto

Further reading

• veto in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• veto in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Etymology

From Latin vet? (“I forbid”).

Noun

veto n (singular definite vetoet, plural indefinite vetoer)

1. veto

Declension

See also

• veto on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Further reading

• “veto” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “veto” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vet?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ve?.to?/
• Hyphenation: ve?to

Noun

veto n (plural veto's, diminutive vetootje n)

1. veto

Derived terms

• vetoën
• vetorecht

Anagrams

• voet

Finnish

Etymology 1

vetää (“to pull”) +? -o

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??eto/, [??e?t?o?]
• Rhymes: -eto
• Syllabification: ve?to

Noun

veto

1. pull (act of pulling)
2. pull (attractive force)
3. draught/draft of air
4. stroke of hand, oar etc.
5. (colloquial) move, as in a debate or game

6. (electronics) trace (on a printed circuit board)

   Synonym: johdin

Declension

Synonyms

• (attractive force): vetovoima, imu
• (move): siirto

Etymology 2

Probably borrowed from Old Swedish væþ, vedh, from Old Norse veð, from Proto-Germanic *wadj?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??eto/, [??e?t?o?]
• Rhymes: -eto
• Syllabification: ve?to

Noun

veto

1. bet, wager (e.g. in gambling)

Declension

Derived terms

• lyödä vetoa (idiom)

Etymology 3

From Latin veto (“I forbid”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??e(?)t(?)o/, [??e?(?)t?(?)o?]
• Rhymes: -eto
• Syllabification: ve?to

Noun

veto

1. veto

Declension

Derived terms

• veto-oikeus

Anagrams

• ovet

French

Alternative forms

• véto (1990 spelling reform)

Etymology 1

Noun

veto m (plural vetos)

1. veto

Descendants

• Turkish: veto

Etymology 2

Noun

veto m or f (plural vetos)

1. vet (veterinarian)

Anagrams

• vote, voté

Further reading

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

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?v?.to/
• Hyphenation: vè?to
• Rhymes: -?to

Noun

veto m (plural veti)

1. veto

Latin

Etymology

From earlier vot?, vot?re, from Proto-Italic *wet?(je)-, from Proto-Indo-European *weth?- (“to say”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?u?e.to?/, [?u??t?o?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ve.to/, [?v??t??]

Verb

vet? (present infinitive vet?re, perfect active vetu?, supine vetitum); first conjugation

1. I forbid, oppose, veto.
   • 1st century AD, Seneca Minor, Troades, line 334

     Quod n?n vetat l?x, hoc vetat fier? pudor.

     What law forbids not, decency forbids be done.

Conjugation

Interjection

vet?

1. I forbid it! I protest!

Usage notes

• Used in the Senate by tribunes to oppose objectionable measures.

Descendants

References

• veto in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• veto in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• veto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) , “ve/ot?”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, ?ISBN, page 672

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin vet? (“I forbid, oppose, veto”), from vot?, vot?re, from Proto-Italic *wet?(je)-, from Proto-Indo-European *weth?- (“to say”).

Noun

veto n (definite singular vetoet, indefinite plural veto or vetoer, definite plural vetoa or vetoene)

1. a veto

References

• “veto” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin veto

Noun

veto n (definite singular vetoet, indefinite plural veto, definite plural vetoa)

1. a veto

References

• “veto” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?v?.tu/
• Hyphenation: ve?to

Noun

veto m (plural vetos)

1. (politics) veto (blocking of a process or decision)

Verb

veto

1. first-person singular (eu) present indicative of vetar

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Latin veto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ê?to/
• Hyphenation: ve?to

Noun

v?to m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. veto

Declension

References

• “veto” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?beto/, [?be.t?o]
• Hyphenation: ve?to

Etymology 1

From Latin veto.

Noun

veto m (plural vetos)

1. veto

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

veto

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of vetar.

Swedish

Noun

veto n

1. veto

Declension

Anagrams

• Tove