voto

voto

1. first-person singular present indicative of votar

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈbo.tu]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈvo.to]

voto

1. first-person singular present indicative of votar

Borrowed from Spanish voto.

voto

1. vote

• Pensinger, Brenda J. (1974), Diccionario mixteco-español, español-mixteco (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 18)‎^[1] (in Spanish), México, D.F.: El Instituto Lingüístico de Verano en coordinación con la Secretaría de Educación Pública a través de la Dirección General de Educación Extraescolar en el Medio Indígena, page 134

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔto/ [ˈbɔ.t̪ʊ]
• Rhymes: -ɔto
• Hyphenation: vo‧to

From Old Galician-Portuguese voto, partly borrowed from Latin vōtum (“vow”), itself from voveō (“I vow”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁wegʷʰ-.

voto m (plural votos)

1. vote, ballot
2. suffrage, the power or right to vote
3. (religion) vow

voto

1. first-person singular present indicative of votar

From Latin vōtum.

• boto (archaic)

• IPA^(key): /ˈvo.to/
• Rhymes: -oto
• Hyphenation: vó‧to

voto m (plural voti)

1. vow
2. vote, ballot

   Ogni voto conta. ― Every vote counts.

   Il voto è unanime. ― The vote is unanimous.

3. mark, grade

   Presi un buon voto in inglese. ― I got a good grade in English.

4. votive offering
5. wish

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvo.to/
• Rhymes: -oto
• Hyphenation: vó‧to

voto

1. first-person singular present indicative of votare

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɔ.to/
• Rhymes: -ɔto
• Hyphenation: vò‧to
• (Romanesco) IPA^(key): /vɔd̞o/

voto (feminine vota, masculine plural voti, feminine plural vote)

1. (literary or colloquial Tuscan, Romanesco) alternative form of vuoto

• voto in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
• voto in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
• voto in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
• voto in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
• voto in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• votō:
  • (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈwɔ.toː]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈvɔː.to]
• vōtō:
  • (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈwoː.toː]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈvɔː.to]

votō (present infinitive votāre, perfect active votuī, supine votitum); first conjugation

1. Old Latin form of vetō
   • c. 200 BCE, Plautus, Mostellaria 4.1.10–11:

     Ut adhuc fuit, mihi corium esse oportet
     sincerum atque ut votem verberari.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

vōtō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of vōtus

vōtō

1. dative/ablative singular of vōtum

• “vŏto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vŏto”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

• voty

Several etymologies have been proposed:

• Inherited from Proto-Austronesian *buCuq (“testicles”). Compare Ma'anyan wutu, Malay butuh, and Saisiyat bosoe'.
• Less likely, borrowed from a Bantu language, from Proto-Bantu *dʊ̀bódó. Compare Swahili mboo, Zulu ubolo, Chichewa mbolo and Shona mboro.

voto

1. penis (male organ for copulation and urination)

   Synonyms: filahiana, lataka

• voto in Malagasy dictionaries at malagasyword.org

• Hyphenation: vo‧to

From Old Galician-Portuguese voto, partly borrowed from Latin vōtum (“vow”), itself from voveō (“to vow”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁wegʷʰ-. Doublet of the inherited bodo (“food, money, or clothes given to the poor on holy days”) and boda (“wedding”).

voto m (plural votos)

1. vote (a formalised choice)
2. vote (act or instance of participating in such a choice)

   Synonym: votação

3. vow (solemn promise to perform some act, or behave in a specified manner)

   Synonyms: compromisso, promessa

4. an offering given during a vow

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

voto

1. first-person singular present indicative of votar

• “voto”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “voto”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2026
• “voto” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “voto”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “voto”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
• “voto”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

• IPA^(key): /ˈboto/ [ˈbo.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -oto
• Syllabification: vo‧to
• Homophone: boto

Probably a learned borrowing from Latin vōtum. See also boda.

voto m (plural votos)

1. vote

   voto decisivo ― swing vote

   • 2015 July 18, Silvia Ayuso, “Los republicanos se entrampan con el voto hispano”, in El País‎^[2], archived from the original on 26 January 2026:

     Pero debido al mensaje antiinmigrante -llegó a proponer la autodeportación de indocumentados- que le aupó entre los votantes blancos más conservadores, solo obtuvo el 23 % del voto latino.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. vow

   Synonym: manda

   tomar los votos ― take one's vows

• → Cebuano: boto
• → Chayuco Mixtec: voto
• → Hiligaynon: boto
• → Ilocano: botos
• → Tagalog: boto

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

voto

1. first-person singular present indicative of votar

• “voto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025