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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
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vets
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /v?ts/
Noun
vets
- plural of vet
Verb
vets
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of vet
Anagrams
- ETVs, EVTs, Vest, vest
Catalan
Noun
vets
- plural of vet
Estonian
Etymology
Shortened from WC.
Noun
vets (genitive vetsu, partitive vetsu)
- (colloquial) toilet, lavatory, WC
Declension
Portuguese
Noun
vets
- plural of vet
vets From the web:
- what vets are open
- what vets are open today
- what vets take care credit
- what vets accept pet assure
- what vets are open near me
- what vets are open on sunday
- what vets do
- what vets are open right now