different between plebiscite vs suffrage

English

Etymology

From Middle French plébiscite, from Latin plebs, plebis (“the common people”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pl?b?sa?t/
• (also UK) IPA^(key): /?pl?b?s?t/

Noun

plebiscite (plural plebiscites)

1. A referendum, especially one that concerns changes in sovereignty

Translations

Spanish

Verb

plebiscite

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of plebiscitar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of plebiscitar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of plebiscitar.
4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of plebiscitar.

English

Etymology

From Middle English suffrage (“prayers or pleas on behalf of another”), from Old French, from Medieval Latin suffragium, from Latin suffragium (“support, vote, right of voting”). The sense of "vote" or "right to vote" was directly derived from classical Latin.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?s?f??d?/

Noun

suffrage (usually uncountable, plural suffrages)

1. (uncountable) The right or chance to vote, express an opinion, or participate in a decision, especially in a democratic elections.
   1. (US) The right of women to vote.
2. (countable) A vote in deciding a particular question.
3. (countable, Christianity) A prayer, for example a prayer offered for the faithful dead.
   • (Can we find and add a quotation of Shipley to this entry?)
   • 1564, Pope Pius IV (unknown translator), Creed of Pope Pius IV

     I firmly believe that there is a purgatory, and that the souls therein detained are helped by the suffrages of the faithful.
4. (countable, Christianity) A short petition, as those after the creed in matins and evensong.
5. (uncountable) Aid, intercession.
   • c. 1521, John Skelton, “Speke Parott”:

     Retoricyons and oratours, in fre?he humanyte
     Support parrot, I pray you w^t your ?uffrage ornate
     Of confu?e tantum, auoydynge the chekmate

6. Testimony; attestation; witness; approval.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:suffrage.

Synonyms

• (right to vote): franchise

Related terms

• suffragist
• suffragette
• universal suffrage

Translations

Anagrams

• gauffers, gauffres, ruffages

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin suffragium (“support, vote, right of voting”).

Noun

suffrage m (plural suffrages)

1. suffrage (right to vote)
2. suffrage (prayer)

Descendants

• ? Romanian: sufragiu

Further reading

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