votus

Ido

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvotus/

Verb

votus

1. conditional of votar

Latin

Etymology

Contracted from earlier *wowitos, from earlier Proto-Italic *woɣʷetos, the perfect participle to *woɣʷeō. The perfect participle to voveō (“to vow”).

Pronunciation

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

Participle

vōtus (feminine vōta, neuter vōtum); first/second-declension participle

1. vowed, promised; devoted to (a deity); having been vowed

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	vōtus	vōta	vōtum		vōtī	vōtae	vōta
genitive	vōtī	vōtae	vōtī		vōtōrum	vōtārum	vōtōrum
dative	vōtō	vōtae	vōtō		vōtīs
accusative	vōtum	vōtam	vōtum		vōtōs	vōtās	vōta
ablative	vōtō	vōtā	vōtō		vōtīs
vocative	vōte	vōta	vōtum		vōtī	vōtae	vōta

References

• “votus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "votus", 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)
• “votus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, 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
    
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “voveō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 691