different between vates vs votes

English

Etymology

From Latin v?t?s, from Proto-Indo-European *weh?t- (“excited, possessed”); cognate with Proto-Celtic *w?tis (“seer”) (Gaulish ???????, Old Irish fáith, Welsh gwawd) and Proto-Germanic *w?daz (“mad”) (Old English w?d (“mad, frenzied”), Gothic ???????????????? (w?ds, “possessed, mad”), Old High German wuot (“mad, madness”). More at wood (“crazy, mad, insane”) and wode.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ve?tiz/

Noun

vates

1. A poet or bard who is divinely inspired.
   • 1999, Dennis Richard Danielson, The Cambridge Companion to Milton, Cambridge University Press, page 57 [1]:

     The volume is haunted by the death of the vates (poet-prophet) Orpheus, who failed to revive Eurydice from death and was then torn apart by maenads.

Derived terms

• sacer vates

Translations

Anagrams

• Avest., Sveta, Vesta, evats, stave, vesta

Latin

Alternative forms

• v?tis

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *w?tis, from Proto-Indo-European *wéh?t-i-s (“seer”), from *weh?t- (“to be excited”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?u?a?.te?s/, [?u?ä?t?e?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?va.tes/, [?v??t??s]

Noun

v?t?s m (genitive v?tis); third declension

1. seer, soothsayer, prophet
2. poet, poetess

   Synonym: po?ta

3. oracle

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Derived terms

• v?ticinor

Descendants

• English: vates
• French: vate
• Italian: vate
• Portuguese: vate
• Spanish: vate

References

• vates in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vates in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vates in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• vates in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)?^[2], Leiden, Boston: Brill, ?ISBN

Latvian

Noun

vates f

1. genitive singular form of vate

Spanish

Noun

vates m pl

1. plural of vate

Volapük

Noun

vates

1. dative plural of vat

For Wiktionary's votes, see Wiktionary:Votes

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /v??ts/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /vo?ts/

Noun

votes

1. plural of vote

Verb

votes

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of vote

Anagrams

• Stevo, ovest, stove, vetos

Asturian

Verb

votes

1. second-person singular present indicative of votar
2. second-person singular present subjunctive of votar

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /?v?.t?s/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?b?.t?s/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?v?.tes/

Verb

votes

1. second-person singular present indicative form of votar

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v?t/
• Homophones: vote, votent

Noun

votes m

1. plural of vote

Verb

votes

1. inflection of voter:
   1. second-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular present subjunctive

Anagrams

• vétos

Portuguese

Verb

votes

1. second-person singular (tu) present subjunctive of votar
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) negative imperative of votar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?botes/, [?bo.t?es]

Verb

votes

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) negative imperative form of votar.
2. Informal second-person singular (tú) present subjunctive form of votar.