FromLatinvetō(“I forbid”).

• (Received Pronunciation)IPA^(key):/ˈviːtəʊ/

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

veto (pluralvetoesorvetos)

1. A politicalright todisapprove of (and thereby stop) the process of a decision, a law etc.
2. An invocation of that right.
   • 1978,Richard Nixon, “The Presidency 1973-1974”, inRN: the Memoirs of Richard Nixon‎^[1], Grosset & Dunlap,→ISBN,→LCCN,→OCLC,→OL,page1078:

     I called Haig in and told him that I wanted toveto the agricultural appropriations bill we had discussed in the Cabinet meeting on Tuesday, because I did not want Ford to have to do it on his first day as President. Haig brought theveto statement in, and I signed it. It was the last piece of legislation I acted on as President.

   • 2019 June 5, Richard Fausset, “North Carolina Legislature Fails to Overturn Governor’s Veto of Anti-Abortion Bill”, inThe New York Times‎^[2]:

     The failure on Wednesday to overturn Mr. Cooper’s veto was among the most dramatic consequences of Democratic legislative victories in North Carolina last November, which broke Republican supermajorities in both chambers and made it easier for Mr. Cooper’svetos to survive.

   • 2024 August 31, David W. Chen, “In North Carolina, the Math for a Supermajority May Come Down to One”, inThe New York Times‎^[3]:

     Now, Republican legislators cannot afford to lose a single seat, in either chamber, if they want to continue to override hisvetoes.

3. Anauthoritativeprohibition or negative; aforbidding; aninterdiction.
   • 1876,George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter 44, inDaniel Deronda, volume(please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh; London:William Blackwood and Sons,→OCLC:

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

4. A technique or mechanism for discarding what would otherwise constitute afalse 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 activeveto for cosmic ray muons.

veto (third-person singular simple presentvetoes,present participlevetoing,simple past and past participlevetoed)

1. (transitive) To use aveto against.

   The presidentvetoed the bill.

   • 1955 March, T. B. Sands, “The Didcot, Newbury & Southampton Railway—2”, inRailway Magazine, page191:

     The railway was in fact shifted in 1937 a little to the west, over a distance of a quarter-mile, to make room for the by-pass at this point, but complete abandonment was firmlyvetoed because of the proved strategic value of the line.

   • 2008 April 15, “A Pullback for Spacs?”, inThe New York Times DealBook‎^[4], retrieved2020-11-18:

     Perhaps more notably, they also expect 25 percent of all Spac acquisitions to bevetoed by shareholders in 2008 — which will force those Spacs to liquidate.

   • 2020 December 17, Don Stacom, “Condemning ‘cancel culture,’ New Britain Mayor Erin Stewartvetoes council vote to remove city’s Columbus statue”, inHartford Courant:
   • 2024 January 5, Amy Harmon, “Ohio Governor Orders Restrictions on Transgender Care After Vetoing Ban”, inThe New York Times‎^[5]:

     Just a week aftervetoing a ban on gender-affirming care for minors, Gov. Mike DeWine of Ohio issued an executive order on Friday banning gender-transition surgeries for anyone under 18 at state hospitals or ambulatory clinics.

2. (transitive) Tocountermand.

   Coordinate term:override

   Mom and Dadvetoed our menu preferences for the holiday meal.

• Tove,Vote,to've,vote

veto

1. first-personsingularpresentindicative ofvetar

• IPA^(key):[ˈvɛto]

veto n

1. veto

• “veto”, inPříruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech),1935–1957
• “veto”, inSlovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech),1960–1971, 1989
• “veto”, inInternetová jazyková příručka (in Czech),2008–2025

FromLatinvetō(“I forbid”).

veto n (singular definitevetoet,plural indefinitevetoer)

1. veto

•  veto on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia^da

• “veto” inDen Danske Ordbog
• “veto” inOrdbog over det danske Sprog

Borrowed fromLatinvetō.

• IPA^(key):/ˈveː.toː/

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• Hyphenation:ve‧to

veto n (pluralveto's,diminutivevetootje n)

1. veto

• vetoën
• vetorecht

• voet

FromProto-Finnic*veto, equivalent tovetää(“to pull”) +‎-o.

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

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

   Tuo oli hyväveto!

   That was a goodmove!

8. spurt,sprint
9. winding(mechanical energy stored in a wound coil in a clockwork or other mechanism)
10. (figuratively)energy,winding,steam

    hyvässävedossa ―in goodform, on a roll

    Minulta alkaaveto loppua. ―I'm beginning to run out ofsteam.

    Olet kyllä yhävedossa! ―Man, you've still got it!

11. (medicine)traction(mechanically applied sustained pull)
12. Ellipsis ofhengenveto(“gasp”).
13. (electronics)trace(on a printed circuit board)

    Synonym:johdin

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

• “1. veto”, inKielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[6] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki:Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland),2004–, retrieved2023-07-01

Probably borrowed fromOld Swedishvæþ,vedh, fromOld Norseveð, fromProto-Germanic*wadją. Also associated withveto (etymology 1).

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

veto

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

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

• “2. veto”, inKielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[7] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki:Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland),2004–, retrieved2023-07-01

FromLatinvetō(“I forbid”).

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

veto

1. veto

• “3. veto”, inKielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[8] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki:Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland),2004–, retrieved2023-07-01

• ovet

• véto(post-1990 spelling)

veto m (pluralvetos)

1. veto

   Le Président de la République a mis sonvéto.

   The President of the Republic put his/herveto.

• Turkish:veto

veto m orfby sense (pluralvetos)

1. vet (veterinarian)

   Nous avons dû emmener le chien chez leveto.

   We had to take the dog to thevet.

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

• vote,voté

FromProto-Finnic*veto, equivalent tovettää(“to pull”) +‎-o. Cognates includeFinnishveto andEstonianvedu.

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

veto

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

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971)Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page650

• IPA^(key):/ˈvɛ.to/,/ˈve.to/^[1]
• Rhymes:-ɛto,-eto
• Hyphenation:vè‧to,vé‧to

veto m (pluralveti)

1. veto

From earliervotō, fromProto-Italic*wotaō, fromProto-Indo-European*weth₂-(“to say”).

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

vetō (present infinitivevetāre,perfect activevetuī,supinevetitum);first conjugation

1. toforbid,prevent,prohibit
   • 29BCE – 19BCE,Virgil,Aeneid1.39:

     “Quippevetor fātīs.”

     “No doubt itis forbidden by the Fates.”
     (Juno seeks to destroy the Trojans despite the will of the Fates.)

   Synonyms:prohibeō,abdīcō

2. toadvise not to
   • 1st c. BC, Marcus Tullius Cicero,Epistulae ad Atticum :

     Pragmatici homines omnibus historiis, praeceptis, versibus denique cavere iubent etvetant credere.

     Prudent men in all their histories, teachings and verse besides tell us to beware andadvise usnot to believe.

3. tooppose,veto

   Synonyms:oppōnō,adversor,obversor,refrāgor,recūsō,repugnō,restō,resistō,officiō,subsistō,dīvertō,resistō,obstō

   • 1st century AD,Seneca Minor,Troades, line 334

     Quod nōnvetat lēx, hoc vetat fierī pudor.

     What lawforbids not, decencyforbids be done.

vetō

1. Iforbid it! Iprotest!

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

• “veto”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “veto”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• veto inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894)Latin Phrase-Book‎^[9], London:Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) an old proverb tells us not to..:vetamur vetere proverbio
    
  • the law orders, forbids (expressly, distinctly):lexiubet, vetat (dilucide, planissime)
    
  • (ambiguous) an old proverb tells us not to..:vetamur vetere proverbio
    
  • (ambiguous) to give up old customs:a vetere consuetudine discedere
    
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “ve/otō”, inEtymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill,→ISBN,page672

FromLatinvetō(“I forbid, oppose, veto”), fromvotō,votāre, fromProto-Italic*wotāō, fromProto-Indo-European*weth₂-(“to say”).

veto n (definite singularvetoet,indefinite pluralvetoorvetoer,definite pluralvetoaorvetoene)

1. aveto

• “veto” inThe Bokmål Dictionary.

FromLatinveto.

veto n (definite singularvetoet,indefinite pluralveto,definite pluralvetoa)

1. aveto

• “veto” inThe Nynorsk Dictionary.

Unadapted borrowing fromLatinvetō.

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

veto n

1. (literary,politics)Alternative spelling ofweto

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

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

veto m (pluralvetos)

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

See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

veto

1. first-personsingularpresentindicative ofvetar

Borrowed fromLatinveto orFrenchveto.

veto n (pluralvetouri)

1. veto

FromLatinveto.

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

vȇto m (Cyrillic spellingве̑то)

1. veto

• “veto”, inHrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian),2006–2025

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

FromLatinvetō.

veto m (pluralvetos)

1. veto

See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

veto

1. first-personsingularpresentindicative ofvetar

• “veto”, inDiccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8,Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish:Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Borrowed fromEnglishveto.

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veto classIX (pluralveto classX)

1. veto

   Synonym:kura ya turufu

veto n

1. veto

• vetorätt

• veto inSvensk ordbok (SO)
• veto inSvenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• veto inSvenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• Tove

FromProto-Finnic*veto.

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

veto

1. draft,transportation(with draft animals)

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