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4-letter words (2 found)

VETO,VOTE,

3-letter words (4 found)

EVO,TOE,VET,VOE,

2-letter words (4 found)

ET,OE,TE,TO,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 11 words from veto according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of veto

veto evto vteo tveo etvo tevo veot evot voet ovet eovt oevt vtoe tvoe vote ovte tove otve etov teov eotv oetv toev otev

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Definitions and meaning of veto

veto

Etymology

From Latin vetō (“I forbid”).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈviːtəʊ/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈvi.toʊ/, [ˈviɾoʊ], /ˈviˌtoʊ/, [ˈviˌtʰoʊ]
  • Rhymes: -iːtəʊ, -əʊ

Noun

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.
  4. A technique or mechanism for discarding what would otherwise constitute a false positive in a scientific experiment.
    • 2021 J.R. Wilson and the Hyper-Kamiokande Collaboration 2021 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 2156 012153
      An outer detector (OD) region will act as both a passive shield for low energy backgrounds and an active veto for cosmic ray muons.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To use a veto against.

Translations

Anagrams

  • Tove, Vote, to've, vote

Catalan

Verb

veto

  1. first-person singular present indicative of vetar

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈvɛto]

Noun

veto n

  1. veto

Declension

Further reading

  • veto in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • veto in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
  • veto in Internetová jazyková příručka

Danish

Etymology

From Latin vetō (“I forbid”).

Noun

veto n (singular definite vetoet, plural indefinite vetoer)

  1. 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 vetō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈveː.toː/
  • Hyphenation: ve‧to

Noun

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

  1. veto

Derived terms

  • vetoën
  • vetorecht

Anagrams

  • voet

Finnish

Etymology 1

From Proto-Finnic *veto, equivalent to vetää (“to pull”) +‎ -o.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʋeto/, [ˈʋe̞t̪o̞]
  • Rhymes: -eto
  • Syllabification(key): ve‧to

Noun

veto

  1. pull (act of pulling)
  2. pull (attractive force)
  3. draught, draft (current of [cold] air)
  4. draught, draft (in the flue of a fireplace, stove, or similar)
  5. stroke (single movement with a tool; of hand, oar, brush, etc.)
  6. (sports) shot, kick (an aimed shot at the goal in a ball game)
  7. (colloquial) move, as in a game or similar
  8. spurt, sprint
  9. winding (mechanical energy stored in a wound coil in a clockwork or other mechanism)
  10. (figuratively) energy, winding, steam
    Minulta alkaa veto loppua. ― I'm beginning to run out of steam.
    Olet kyllä yhä vedossa! ― Man, you've still got it!
  11. (medicine) traction (mechanically applied sustained pull)
  12. Ellipsis of hengenveto (“gasp”).
  13. (electronics) trace (on a printed circuit board)
    Synonym: johdin
Declension
Synonyms
  • (attractive force): vetovoima, imu
  • (move): siirto
Derived terms

Further reading

  • “1. veto”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01

Etymology 2

Probably borrowed from Old Swedish væþ, vedh, from Old Norse veð, from Proto-Germanic *wadją. Also associated with etymology 1.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʋeto/, [ˈʋe̞t̪o̞]
  • Rhymes: -eto
  • Syllabification(key): ve‧to

Noun

veto

  1. bet, wager (an instance of making a bet)
Usage notes

veto means an instance of betting, an agreement to wager something. The thing wagered is panos.

Declension
Derived terms

Further reading

  • “2. veto”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[3] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01

Etymology 3

From Latin veto (“I forbid”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʋe(ː)t(ː)o/, [ˈʋe̞(ː)t̪(ː)o̞]
  • Rhymes: -eto
  • Syllabification(key): ve‧to

Noun

veto

  1. veto
Declension
Derived terms

Further reading

  • “3. veto”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[4] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01

Anagrams

  • ovet

French

Alternative forms

  • véto (post-1990 spelling)

Etymology 1

Noun

veto m (plural vetos)

  1. veto
Descendants
  • Turkish: veto

Etymology 2

Noun

veto m or f by sense (plural vetos)

  1. vet (veterinarian)

Further reading

  • “veto”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

  • vote, voté

Ingrian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *veto, equivalent to vettää (“to pull”) +‎ -o. Cognates include Finnish veto and Estonian vedu.

Pronunciation

  • (Ala-Laukaa) IPA(key): /ˈʋeto/, [ˈʋe̞to̞]
  • (Soikkola) IPA(key): /ˈʋeto/, [ˈʋe̞d̥o̞]
  • Rhymes: -eto
  • Hyphenation: ve‧to

Noun

veto

  1. pull
  2. bet, wager
  3. distance between two ice holes
  4. draught (draw through a flue)

Declension

Derived terms

References

  • Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 650

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈvɛ.to/, /ˈve.to/
  • Rhymes: -ɛto, -eto
  • Hyphenation: vè‧to, vé‧to

Noun

veto m (plural veti)

  1. veto

References

Latin

Etymology

From earlier votō, from Proto-Italic *wotāō, from Proto-Indo-European *weth₂- (“to say”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈu̯e.toː/, [ˈu̯ɛt̪oː]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈve.to/, [ˈvɛːt̪o]

Verb

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

  1. to forbid, prevent, prohibit
    Synonyms: prohibeō, abdīcō
  2. to advise not to
  3. to oppose, veto
    Synonyms: oppōnō, adversor, obversor, refrāgor, recūsō, repugnō, restō, resistō, officiō, subsistō, dīvertō, resistō, obstō
    • 1st century AD, Seneca Minor, Troades, line 334

Conjugation

Interjection

vetō

  1. I forbid it! I protest!

Usage notes

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

Descendants

Further reading

  • “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[5], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “ve/otō”, 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 vetō (“I forbid, oppose, veto”), from votō, votāre, from Proto-Italic *wotāō, from Proto-Indo-European *weth₂- (“to say”).

Noun

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

  1. 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)

  1. a veto

References

  • “veto” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin vetō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈvɛ.tɔ/
  • Rhymes: -ɛtɔ
  • Syllabification: ve‧to

Noun

veto n

  1. (literary, politics) Alternative spelling of weto

Declension

Further reading

  • veto in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • veto in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɛtu
  • Homophone: beto (Northern Portugal)
  • Hyphenation: ve‧to

Etymology 1

Noun

veto m (plural vetos)

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

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

veto

  1. first-person singular present indicative of vetar

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin veto or French veto.

Noun

veto n (plural vetouri)

  1. veto

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Latin veto.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

vȇto m (Cyrillic spelling ве̑то)

  1. veto

Declension

References

  • “veto” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbeto/ [ˈbe.t̪o]
  • Rhymes: -eto
  • Syllabification: ve‧to

Etymology 1

From Latin vetō.

Noun

veto m (plural vetos)

  1. veto

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

veto

  1. first-person singular present indicative of vetar

Further reading

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

Swahili

Etymology

Borrowed from English veto.

Pronunciation

Noun

veto (n class, plural veto)

  1. veto
    Synonym: kura ya turufu

Swedish

Noun

veto n

  1. veto

Declension

Derived terms

  • vetorätt

References

  • veto in Svensk ordbok (SO)
  • veto in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
  • veto in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

  • Tove

Votic

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *veto.

Pronunciation

  • (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA(key): /ˈveto/, [ˈveto]
  • Rhymes: -eto
  • Hyphenation: ve‧to

Noun

veto

  1. draft, transportation (with draft animals)

Inflection

References

  • Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) “veto”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn

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