different between vote vs electorate

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 elector +? -ate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??l?kt???t/

Noun

electorate (plural electorates)

1. (historical) The dominion of an Elector in the Holy Roman Empire.
2. The collective people of a country, state, or electoral district who are entitled to vote.
3. The geographic area encompassing an electoral district.

Synonyms

• (collective people): constituency
• (geographic area): riding (Canada), constituency (United Kingdom), seat (Australia), division (Australia), ward, district, electoral district

Related terms

• elector
• electoral
• electoral district
• election
• Elector
• Electorate

Translations

References

• “electorate”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.