votum

See also: Votum

Indonesian

Etymology

• Learned borrowing from Latin vōtum (“promise, dedication, vow, solemn pledge; determination, will, desire; prayer, devotion”).
• Semantic loan from English vote (“formalized choice”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈvotum/ [ˈfo.t̪ʊm]
• Rhymes: -otum
• Syllabification: vo‧tum

Noun

votum (plural votum-votum)

1. (literally) a vow or promise made to a deity
   1. (Protestantism) a public declaration of dependence on God that takes place at the beginning of a service in reformed worship
2. vote:
   1. a formalized choice on legally relevant measures such as employment or appointment to office or a proceeding about a legal dispute

      Synonyms: setem, suara

   2. an act or instance of participating in such a choice, e.g., by submitting a ballot

      Synonyms: setem, suara

Derived terms

• votum kepercayaan

Further reading

• “votum”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈwoː.tũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈvɔː.tum]

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₁wegʷʰ-

Proto-Indo-European *-yeti

Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti

Proto-Indo-European *h₁wogʷʰéyeti

Proto-Italic *woɣʷeō

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Italic *-tos

Proto-Italic *woɣʷetos

Proto-Italic *wowitos

Latin vōtusnom.

Latin vōtum

Nominalization of vōtus.

Noun

vōtum n (genitive vōtī); second declension

1. promise, dedication, vow, solemn pledge

   Synonyms: pignus, fīdūcia

2. determination, will, desire
3. prayer, devotion

   Synonym: prex

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	vōtum	vōta
genitive	vōtī	vōtōrum
dative	vōtō	vōtīs
accusative	vōtum	vōta
ablative	vōtō	vōtīs
vocative	vōtum	vōta

Derived terms

• votis XX

Related terms

• vōtifer
• vōtīvitās
• vōtīvus
• vōtus
• voveō

Descendants

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: voto, boto
  • Sicilian: vutu, votu
• Gallo-Italic:
  • Piedmontese: vut
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: vot, boda (or from Ibero-Romance, probably Aragonese)
  • Occitan: vòt
  • Old French: vut
    • French: vœu
    • → English: vow
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: boda
  • Old Leonese: aluodo
  • Old Leonese: boda
    • Asturian: boda
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: voda
    • Fala: boda
    • Galician: voda
    • Portuguese: boda, bodas, bodo
  • Old Spanish: boda
    • Ladino: boda
    • Spanish: boda (see there for further descendants)
• Borrowings:
  • → Asturian: votu
  • → Catalan: vot
  • → Middle English: vote
    • English: vote
      • → French: vote
        • Haitian Creole: vòt
        • Mauritian Creole: vot
        • → Romanian: vot
      • → Tamil: ஓட்டு (ōṭṭu), வோட்டு (vōṭṭu) — less common
      • → Telugu: వోటు (vōṭu)
      • → Welsh: fôt
    • → Irish: vóta
  • → Galician: voto
  • → German: Votum
  • → Middle Irish: móit, bóit
    • Irish: móid
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: votum
  • → Norwegian Nynorsk: votum
  • → Polish: wotum
  • → Portuguese: voto
  • → Romanian: votum
  • → Swedish: votum
  • → Spanish: voto
    • → Cebuano: boto
    • → Tagalog: boto

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Participle

vōtum

1. inflection of vōtus:
   1. accusative masculine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular

References

• “votum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “votum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "votum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “votum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to wish any one a prosperous journey: aliquem proficiscentem votis ominibusque prosequi (vid. sect. VI. 11, note Prosequi...)
    
  • (ambiguous) to make a vow: vota facere, nuncupare, suscipere, concipere
    
  • (ambiguous) to accomplish, pay a vow: vota solvere, persolvere, reddere
    
  • (ambiguous) to have to pay a vow; to obtain one's wish: voti damnari, compotem fieri
    
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “vow”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin votum.

Noun

votum n (definite singular votumet, indefinite plural vota, definite plural votaene)

1. a vote

Synonyms

• stemme

Derived terms

• mistillitsvotum

References

• “votum” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “votum” in Norwegian Academy Dictionary (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin votum.

Noun

votum n (definite singular votumet, indefinite plural votum, definite plural votuma)

1. a vote

Synonyms

• stemme, røyst

Derived terms

• mistillitsvotum

References

• “votum” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin votum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²vuːt.ɵm/

Noun

votum n

1. vote

Declension

Declension of votum

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	votum	votums
	definite	votumet	votumets
plural	indefinite	votum	votums
	definite	votumen	votumens

Derived terms

• förtroendevotum
• misstroendevotum

Related terms

• votera
• votering

References

• “votum”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “votum”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “votum”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)