veto

From Latin vetō (“I forbid”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈviːtəʊ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈviːtoʊ/
  • Flapping is optional: IPA^(key): [ˈviːɾoʊ] or IPA^(key): [ˈviːtʰoʊ].
• Rhymes: -iːtəʊ

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.
   • George Eliot

     This contemptuous veto of her husband's on any intimacy with her family.

veto (third-person singular simple present vetoes, present participle vetoing, simple past and past participle vetoed)

1. (transitive) To use a veto against.

• Vote, to've, vote

veto

1. first-person singular present indicative form of vetar

veto n

1. veto

From Latin vetō (“I forbid”).

veto n (singular definite vetoet, plural indefinite vetoer)

1. veto

• veto on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

• “veto” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “veto” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Borrowed from Latin vetō.

• IPA^(key): /ˈveː.toː/

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• Hyphenation: ve‧to

veto n (plural veto's, diminutive vetootje n)

1. veto

• vetoën
• vetorecht

• voet

From verb vetää (“to pull”) +‎ -o. For the 'bet' sense compare German wetten (“to bet”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋeto/, [ˈʋe̞t̪o̞]
• Hyphenation: ve‧to

veto

1. pull (act of pulling)
2. pull (attractive force)
3. draught/draft of air
4. stroke of hand, oar etc.
5. bet, wager (e.g. in gambling)
6. (colloquial) move, as in a debate or game

   Tuo oli hyvä veto!

   That was a good move!

• (attractive force): vetovoima, imu
• (move): siirto

From Latin veto (“I forbid”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋeːtːo/, [ˈʋe̞ːt̪ːo̞]
• IPA^(key): /ˈʋeto/, [ˈʋe̞t̪o̞] (colloquial)

veto

1. veto

• veto-oikeus

• ovet

• véto (1990 spelling reform)

veto m (plural vetos)

1. veto

   Le Président de la République a mis son véto.

   The President of the Republic put his/her veto.

veto m or f (plural vetos)

1. vet (veterinarian)

   Nous avons dû emmener le chien chez le veto.

   We had to take the dog to the vet.

• vote, voté

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɛ.to/
• Hyphenation: vè‧to

veto m (plural veti)

1. veto

From earlier votō, votāre, of unknown origin.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈwe.toː/, [ˈwɛ.toː]

vetō (present infinitive vetāre, perfect active vetuī, supine vetitum); first conjugation

1. I forbid, oppose, veto.
   • Seneca Minor, Troades, line 334

     Quod nōn vetat lēx, hoc vetat fierī pudor.

     What law forbids not, decency forbids be done.

vetō

1. I forbid it! I protest!

• Used in the Senate by tribunes to oppose objectionable measures.

• Catalan: vedar, vetar
• English: veto
• Italian: vietare
• Portuguese: vedar, vetar
• Spanish: vedar, vetar

• 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, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) an old proverb tells us not to..: vetamur vetere proverbio
    
  • the law orders, forbids (expressly, distinctly): lex iubet, vetat (dilucide, planissime)
    
  • (ambiguous) an old proverb tells us not to..: vetamur vetere proverbio
    
  • (ambiguous) to give up old customs: a vetere consuetudine discedere
    

From Latin veto

veto n (definite singular vetoet, indefinite plural veto or vetoer, definite plural vetoa or vetoene)

1. a veto

• “veto” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Latin veto

veto n (definite singular vetoet, indefinite plural veto, definite plural vetoa)

1. a veto

• “veto” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɛ.tu/
• Hyphenation: ve‧to

veto m (plural vetos)

1. (politics) veto (blocking of a process or decision)

veto

1. first-person singular (eu) present indicative of vetar

From Latin veto.

• IPA^(key): /ʋêːto/
• Hyphenation: ve‧to

vȇto m (Cyrillic spelling ве̑то)

1. veto

• “veto” in Hrvatski jezični portal

• IPA^(key): /ˈbeto/, [ˈbet̪o]
• Hyphenation: ve‧to

From Latin veto.

veto m (plural vetos)

1. veto

See the etymology of the main entry.

veto

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of vetar.

veto n

1. veto