different between veto vs bet

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

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Etymology 1

From 16th-century criminal slang, likely from abet or Old English bætan (“to make better”); or from Old French abeter (“to entice”), from a- (“to”) + beter (“hound on, urge, to bait”); but in either case ultimately from Proto-Germanic. More at abet.

Noun

bet (plural bets)

2. A wager, an agreement between two parties that a stake (usually money) will be paid by the loser to the winner (the winner being the one who correctly forecast the outcome of an event).

3. A degree of certainty.

Translations

Verb

bet (third-person singular simple present bets, present participle betting, simple past and past participle bet or betted)

1. To stake or pledge upon the outcome of an event; to wager.
   • 1858, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., "The Deacon's Masterpiece or The Wonderful One-Hoss Shay

     I'll bet you two to one I'll make him do it.

2. To be sure of something; to be able to count on something.

3. (poker) To place money into the pot in order to require others do the same, usually only used for the first person to place money in the pot on each round.

Derived terms

Translations

Interjection

bet (slang, chiefly US)

1. Expression of general agreement or acceptance.
2. Exclamation indicating acceptance of a challenge or an absurd proposal.
3. Exclamation of joy at good fortune.

Etymology 2

From Hebrew ???? (béyt)

Noun

bet

1. Alternative form of beth

Etymology 3

Abbreviation.

Preposition

bet

1. (knitting) between

Anagrams

• BTE, TEB

Bislama

Etymology 1

From English bait.

Noun

bet

1. bait

Etymology 2

From English bet

Verb

bet

1. to gamble

Brokskat

Verb

bet

1. continued

Crimean Tatar

Noun

bet

1. face
2. side, direction
3. page

Declension

Synonyms

• yüz, ç?ray (face)
• saife (page)

References

• Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajins?ko-kryms?kotatars?kyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]?^[7], Simferopol: Dolya, ?ISBN

Finnish

Noun

bet

1. beth (second letter of the Hebrew and Phoenician scripts and the Northwest Semitic abjad)

Declension

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /be?t/
• Homophone: Beet

Verb

bet

1. singular imperative of beten

Usage notes

The form bete is more common.

Italian

Etymology

From Hebrew ???????? (báyi?).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?t/
• Hyphenation: bèt

Noun

bet f (invariable)

1. beth
   1. The name of the Phoenician-script letter ????
   2. The name of the Hebrew script letter ?

Related terms

• beta

Latgalian

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *bet, from Proto-Indo-European *be, *b?e (“outside”). Cognates include Latvian bet and Lithuanian bet. Not related to English but.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bæt/

Conjunction

bet

1. but

References

• Nicole Nau (2011) A short grammar of Latgalian, München: LINCOM GmbH, ?ISBN

Latvian

Etymology

From Proto-Baltic *bet, from Proto-Indo-European *be, *b?e (“outside, without”) (whence also Latvian preposition bez, q.v.), to which an old particle -t was added, visible also in the Latvian particle it and the adverb šeit (“here”) (q.v.). Cognates include Lithuanian bèt, Sudovian bat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [b?t]

Conjunction

bet

1. adversative conjunction, used to express contrast or opposition; but

2. (with tom?r) expressing contrast, opposition with a nuance of concession; yet, but still

3. (with gan) expressing strong contrast, opposition; but, but instead

4. (with ne, nevis) expressing strong contrast, opposition; but not

5. (with a preceding negative clause) (expressing strong contrast, opposition)

6. (with gan in the preceding sentence) expressing opposition to the preceding event, which did not achieve its goal, was frustrated (indeed) ... but

7. used to express an inconsistency or contradiction between two clauses, or a frustrated expectation

8. used to connect a sentence to the preceding context, indicating an inconsistency or contradiction, or a frustrated expectation; But...

9. used to connect a subordinate clause indicating concession to a main clause; but

10. (in combinations like ne vien ..., bet ar?, ne tikai ..., bet ar?, ne tikvien ..., bet ar?) used to coordinate clause elements; not only ..., but also

11. (with tad) used to strengthen emotionally the idea expressed in a sentence as opposed to some expectation but...!, but then...!

12. (used as a noun) obstacle, hindrance, “but”

    šim pas?kumam ir savs “bet” — this undertaking has its own but (= there is an obstacle to it)

Usage notes

Latvian bet is to some extent a "false friend" of English but, since it is used not only in adversative (but) contexts, but also in certain additive (and) contexts, when there is the idea of contrast (while...) between two situations, very much like Russian ? (a): es str?d?ju, bet mana sieva lasa gr?matu “I am working, and (= while) my wife is reading a book” (cf. Russian ? ???????, ? ??? ???? ?????? ?????). A more strongly adversative word, used to stress contrast, contradiction, or inconsistency, is ta?u, which would correspond to Russian ?? (no).

Synonyms

• ta?u
• tom?r

References

Lithuanian

Etymology

Cognate with Latvian bet. From bè (“without”) + particle -t. This particle comes from tè (“let, may it be”), compare nèt (“even”) < nete.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??t/

Conjunction

bèt

1. (adversative) but, yet, though (introduces an idea contrary to or a concession to the previous statement)

   Nóriu, bèt negaliù. - I want to, but I can't.

   Paskutìnis, bèt nè pras?iáusias - Last but not least

Particle

bet (unstressed)

1. (in conjunction with interrogative words) any-, -ever (suggesting the complement is not important or irrelevant)

   bet kadà - whenever, anytime

   Jau?iúosi geria? ne? bet kadà! - I feel better than ever!

   bet kurìs - whichever, any

   Bet kuriuõ ãtveju àš darýsiu polìtin? karjèr? - I'll make it in politics, no matter what it takes.

Derived terms

Middle Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bet/

Etymology 1

From Old Dutch bit.(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Is this bi+met?”)

Preposition

bet

1. with, together with

   Synonym: met

2. with, by means of, using

   Synonym: met

Etymology 2

Adverb

bet

1. Alternative form of bat

Etymology 3

From bi + te. Compare Middle High German biz (German bis).

Preposition

bet

1. (rare) up to

Further reading

• “bet (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “bet (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “bet (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page I
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “bet (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page II

Middle English

Alternative forms

• bette, bett, bæt

Etymology

From Old English bet, from Proto-Germanic *batiz. In adverbial senses, later supplemented by bettre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?t/

Adverb

bet

1. comparative degree of wel

Descendants

• English: bet (obsolete)

References

• “bet, adv. & adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-02-17.

Adjective

bet (only in predicates)

1. comparative degree of wel

References

• “bet, adv. & adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-02-17.

Descendants

• English: bet (obsolete)

Noun

bet

1. Something or someone which is more wel (i.e. better).

References

• “bet, adv. & adj. as n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-02-17.

Descendants

• English: bet (obsolete)

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• beit

Verb

bet

1. simple past of bite

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *batiz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bet/

Adverb

bet

1. better
2. rather

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *batiz.

Adverb

bet

1. better
2. rather

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bet/, [?bet?]

Noun

bet f (plural bet)

1. beth; the Hebrew letter ?

Swedish

Verb

bet

1. past tense of bita.

Tok Pisin

Etymology 1

From English bed.

Noun

bet

1. bed

Etymology 2

From English bet.

Noun

bet

1. bet

Vilamovian

Pronunciation

Noun

bet n (plural bet)

1. bed

Volapük

Noun

bet (nominative plural bets)

1. flower bed

Declension

Westrobothnian

Etymology

From Old Norse bit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bet/, /be?t/

Noun

bet n

1. the crossbar which joins the two drying racks at a barn

Noun

bet n

1. fleas and lice
2. the property to bite
3. mark after bite

Zhuang

Etymology

From Proto-Tai *pe?t? (“eight”), from Middle Chinese ? (MC p??t?, “eight”). Cognate with Thai ??? (bp???t), Tai Dam pét, Lao ??? (p?t), Lü ???? (?aed¹), Shan ????? (pàet), Tai Nüa ???? (p?et), Ahom ???????????????? (pit), Bouyei beedt. Doublet of bat.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /pe?t??/
• Tone numbers: bet⁷
• Hyphenation: bet

Numeral

bet (old orthography bet)

1. eight

   Synonym: (in compounds) bat

Zoogocho Zapotec

Etymology

From Proto-Zapotec *kw-e?tti(k), from Proto-Zapotecan *kw-e?tti(k).

Noun

bet

1. skunk

References

• Long C., Rebecca; Cruz M., Sofronio (2000) Diccionario zapoteco de San Bartolomé Zoogocho, Oaxaca (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 38)?^[8] (in Spanish), second electronic edition, Coyoacán, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 12