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veto
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)
- A political right to disapprove of (and thereby stop) the process of a decision, a law etc.
- An invocation of that right.
- 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)
- (transitive) To use a veto against.
Translations
Anagrams
- Vote, to've, vote
Catalan
Verb
veto
- first-person singular present indicative form of vetar
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?v?to]
Noun
veto n
- 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)
- 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)
- 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
- pull (act of pulling)
- pull (attractive force)
- draught/draft of air
- stroke of hand, oar etc.
- (colloquial) move, as in a debate or game
- (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
- 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
- veto
Declension
Derived terms
- veto-oikeus
Anagrams
- ovet
French
Alternative forms
- véto (1990 spelling reform)
Etymology 1
Noun
veto m (plural vetos)
- veto
Descendants
- Turkish: veto
Etymology 2
Noun
veto m or f (plural vetos)
- 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)
- 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
- 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.
- Quod n?n vetat l?x, hoc vetat fier? pudor.
- 1st century AD, Seneca Minor, Troades, line 334
Conjugation
Interjection
vet?
- 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)
- 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)
- a veto
References
- “veto” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?v?.tu/
- Hyphenation: ve?to
Noun
veto m (plural vetos)
- (politics) veto (blocking of a process or decision)
Verb
veto
- 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 ?????)
- 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)
- veto
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
veto
- First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of vetar.
Swedish
Noun
veto n
- veto
Declension
Anagrams
- Tove
veto From the web:
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- what veto did congress override
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reject
English
Etymology
From Late Middle English rejecten, from Latin r?iectus, past participle of r?icere (“to throw back”), from r?- (“back”) + iacere (“to throw”). Displaced native Middle English forwerpen (“to reject”) (from Old English forweorpan), Middle English forcasten (“to reject, throw away”) (from Old Norse forkasta), Middle English skirpen (“to reject, spew out”) (from Old Norse skirpa (“to reject, spit out”)), Middle English wernen (“to refuse, reject”) (from Old English wiernan (“to refuse, reject”)), Middle English withchosen, withchesen (“to reject, choose against”) (from Old English wiþ??osan (“to reject”)).
Pronunciation
- (verb) enPR: r?j?kt?, IPA(key): /???d??kt/
- (noun) enPR: r??j?kt, IPA(key): /??i?d??kt/
- Hyphenation: re?ject
- Rhymes: -?kt
Verb
reject (third-person singular simple present rejects, present participle rejecting, simple past and past participle rejected)
- (transitive) To refuse to accept.
- (basketball) To block a shot, especially if it sends the ball off the court.
- To refuse a romantic advance.
Synonyms
- (refuse to accept): decline, refuse, turn down, repudiate, disown, abnegate, abjure, deny
Antonyms
- (refuse to accept): accept, take up
Translations
Noun
reject (plural rejects)
- Something that is rejected.
- (derogatory slang) An unpopular person.
- (colloquial) a rejected defective product in a production line.
- (aviation) A rejected takeoff.
Synonyms
- (something that is rejected): castaway
- (an unpopular person): outcast, castaway, alien
- (rejected takeoff): RTO
Related terms
- rejection
Translations
reject From the web:
- what rejected mean
- what rejection does to a man
- what rejects the null hypothesis
- what rejection does to the brain
- what rejection feels like
- what rejection does to a person
- what rejection does to your brain
- what rejection teaches you
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