different between vote vs elector

English

Etymology

From Latin v?tum, a form of vove? (“I vow”) (cognate with Ancient Greek ??????? (eúkhomai, “to vow”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h?wog??-. The word is thus a doublet of vow.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /v??t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /vo?t/
• Rhymes: -??t

Noun

vote (plural votes)

1. a formalized choice on legally relevant measures such as employment or appointment to office or a proceeding about a legal dispute.

2. an act or instance of participating in such a choice, e.g., by submitting a ballot
   • Directive (EU) 2017/828 amending Directive 2007/36/EC, recital 10:

3. (obsolete) an ardent wish or desire; a vow; a prayer
   • 1633, Philip Massinger, “The Guardian”, in Three New Playes; viz. The Bashful Lover, The Guardian, The Very Woman. As They have been Often Acted at the Private-House in Black-Friers, by His Late Majesties Servants, with Great Applause, London: Printed for Humphrey Moseley, and are to be sold at his Shop at the Sign of the Prince's Arms in St. Pauls Church-yard, published 1655, OCLC 15553475; republished as “The Guardian. A Comical History. As It hath been Often Acted at the Private-House in Black-Friars, by His Late Majesty's Servants, with Great Applause, 1655.”, in Thomas Coxeter, editor, The Works of Philip Massinger. Volume the Fourth. Containing, The Guardian. A Very Woman. The Old Law. The City Madam. And Poems on Several Occasions, volume IV, London: Printed for T[homas] Davies, in Russel-street, Covent-Garden, 1761, OCLC 6847259, Act V, scene i, page 71:

     Jol[ante]. In you, Sir, / I live; and when, or by the Cour?e of Nature, / Or Violence you mu?t fall, the End of my / Devotions is, that one and the ?ame Hour / May make us fit for Heaven. // Server. I join with you / In my votes that way: […]

4. (obsolete) a formalized petition or request
5. (obsolete) any judgment of intellect leading to a formal opinion, a point of view
6. any judgment of intellect leading not only to a formal opinion but also to a particular choice in a legally relevant measure, a point of view as published

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

vote (third-person singular simple present votes, present participle voting, simple past and past participle voted)

1. (intransitive) to cast a vote; to assert a formalized choice in an election
2. (transitive) to choose or grant by means of a vote, or by general consent

Hyponyms

• vote in
• vote out
• vote down

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• elect
• nominate

Descendants

• Tok Pisin: vot
  • ? Rotokas: votu

Further reading

• vote and voting in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
• Voting on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• to've, veto

Asturian

Verb

vote

1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of votar

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English vote. Doublet of vœu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v?t/
• Homophones: votent, votes
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

vote m (plural votes)

1. vote

Derived terms

• vote à main levée

Related terms

• votant

Verb

vote

1. inflection of voter:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative
   2. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   3. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• veto, véto

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?u?o?.te/, [?u?o?t??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?vo.te/, [?v??t??]

Participle

v?te

1. vocative masculine singular of v?tus

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from English vote, from Latin v?tum, from vove?, vov?re (“vow”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?eweg??-.

Noun

vote m (plural votes)

1. (Jersey) vote

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?v?.t??i/

Verb

vote

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of votar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of votar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of votar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of votar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bote/, [?bo.t?e]

Verb

vote

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

English

Etymology

From Middle English electour (“one with a right to vote in electing some office, elector”), borrowed from Late Latin ?l?ctor (“chooser, selector; voter, elector”), from Latin ?ligere (“to elect”) + -tor (suffix forming masculine agent nouns). ?ligere is the present active infinitive of ?lig? (“to extract, pluck or root out; (figurative) to choose, elect, pick out”), from ?- (variant of ex- (prefix meaning ‘away; out’)) + leg? (“to appoint, choose, select”) (from Proto-Italic *leg? (“to gather, collect”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *le?- (“to collect, gather”)).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??l?kt?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??l?kt?/
• Rhymes: -?kt?(?)
• Hyphenation: elect?or

Noun

elector (plural electors)

1. (politics) A person eligible to vote in an election; a member of an electorate, a voter.
   1. (Britain, Commonwealth of Nations) A person eligible to vote to elect a Member of Parliament.
   2. A member of an electoral college; specifically (US) an official selected by a state as a member of the Electoral College to elect the president and vice president of the United States.
   3. (historical) Alternative letter-case form of Elector (“a German prince entitled to elect the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire”).

Alternative forms

• electour (obsolete)

Derived terms

Related terms

• elect
• election

Translations

References

Further reading

• prince-elector on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• elector (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• voting on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• corelet, electro, electro-

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin elector.

Noun

elector m (plural electors, feminine electora)

1. voter, elector

Derived terms

• electoral
• electorat

Further reading

• “elector” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “elector” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “elector” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “elector” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Latin

Etymology

From ?lig? (“to choose, pick out”) +? -tor (agentive suffix) from ex- (“out”) +? leg? (“to gather, collect”) from Proto-Italic *leg?, from Proto-Indo-European *le?-. Compare Ancient Greek ?????? (eklég?).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /e??le?k.tor/, [e????e?kt??r]
• (Vulgar) IPA^(key): /e?le?k.tor/, [e?le?ktor]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /e?lek.tor/, [??l?kt??r]

Noun

?l?ctor m (genitive ?l?ct?ris, feminine ?l?ctr?x); third declension

1. chooser, selector
2. voter, elector

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Related terms

Descendants

References

• elector in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• elector in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 580
• elector in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, page 2378

Spanish

Etymology

From Late Latin ?l?ctor (“chooser, selector”) (genitive singular ?l?ct?ris), from Latin ?lig? (“to choose, pick out”), ex- +? leg? from Proto-Italic *leg? (“to gather, collect”), from Proto-Indo-European *le?-.

Noun

elector m (plural electores, feminine electora, feminine plural electoras)

1. voter, elector

   Synonym: votante

Derived terms

• electorado
• electoral

Further reading

• “elector” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.