different between defy vs veto

English

Etymology

From Old French desfier, from Vulgar Latin *disfidare (“renounce one's faith”), from Latin dis- (“away”) + fidus (“faithful”). Meaning shifted in the 14th century from "be disloyal" to "challenge". Contrast confide, fidelity, faith.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??fa?/
• Rhymes: -a?

Verb

defy (third-person singular simple present defies, present participle defying, simple past and past participle defied)

1. (transitive) To challenge (someone) or brave (a hazard or opposition).
   • 1671, John Milton, Samson Agonistes

     I once again / Defie thee to the trial of mortal fight.

   • 1900, Edith King Hall, Adventures in Toyland Chapter 6

     "So you actually think yours is good-looking?" sneered the Baker. "Why, I could make a better-looking one out of a piece of dough."

     "I defy you to," the Hansom-driver replied. "A face like mine is not easily copied. Nor am I the only person of that opinion. All the ladies think that I am beautiful. And of course I go by what they think."

2. (transitive) To refuse to obey.
   • 2005, George W. Bush, Presidential Radio Address - 19 March 2005

     Before coalition forces arrived, Iraq was ruled by a dictatorship that murdered its own citizens, threatened its neighbors, and defied the world.
3. To not conform to or follow a pattern, set of rules or expectations.
   • 1955, Anonymous, The Urantia Book Paper 41

     By tossing this nineteenth electron back and forth between its own orbit and that of its lost companion more than twenty-five thousand times a second, a mutilated stone atom is able partially to defy gravity and thus successfully to ride the emerging streams of light and energy, the sunbeams, to liberty and adventure.

   • 2013, Jeré Longman in the New York Times, W.N.B.A. Hopes Griner Can Change Perceptions, as Well as Game Itself

     “To be determined,” Kane said, “is whether Griner and her towering skill and engaging personality will defy the odds and attract corporate sponsors as part of widespread public acceptance four decades after passage of the gender-equity legislation known as Title IX.”

4. (transitive, obsolete) To renounce or dissolve all bonds of affiance, faith, or obligation with; to reject, refuse, or renounce.
   • 1603-1625, Beaumont and Fletcher

     For thee I have defied my constant mistress.

Derived terms

• death-defying

Related terms

• defiance
• defiant

Translations

Noun

defy (plural defies)

1. (obsolete) A challenge.

   • And, safe intrench'd within, her foes without defies

Translations

Anagrams

• yfed

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