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Ido
Pronunciation
Verb
votus
- conditional of votar
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *wogʷetos; perfect passive participle of voveō (“I vow”).
Pronunciation
Participle
vōtus (feminine vōta, neuter vōtum); first/second-declension participle
- vowed, promised; devoted to (a deity); having been vowed
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
References
- “votus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- votus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s 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