vote

English Online Dictionary. What means vote‎? What does vote mean?

English

Etymology

From Latin vōtum, a form of voveō (“I vow”) (cognate with Ancient Greek εὔχομαι (eúkhomai, “to vow”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁wegʷʰ-. The word is thus a doublet of vow.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /vəʊt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /voʊt/
• Rhymes: -əʊt

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 Courſe of Nature, / Or Violence you muſt fall, the End of my / Devotions is, that one and the ſame 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.

Conjugation

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

• Tove, 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): /vɔt/
• Homophones: votent, votes
• Rhymes: -ɔt

Noun

vote m (plural votes)

1. vote

Derived terms

• bulletin de vote
• bureau de vote
• droit de vote
• vote à main levée

Related terms

• votant

Verb

vote

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

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• veto, véto

Galician

Verb

vote

1. inflection of votar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɔ.te/
• Rhymes: -ɔte
• Hyphenation: vò‧te

Adjective

vote

1. (literary or popular Tuscan) feminine plural of voto (“empty”)

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯oː.te/, [ˈu̯oːt̪ɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈvo.te/, [ˈvɔːt̪e]

Participle

vōte

1. vocative masculine singular of vōtus

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from English vote, from Latin vōtum, from voveō, vovēre (“vow”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ewegʷʰ-.

Noun

vote m (plural votes)

1. (Jersey) vote

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: vo‧te

Verb

vote

1. inflection of votar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbote/ [ˈbo.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -ote
• Syllabification: vo‧te

Verb

vote

1. inflection of votar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative