# 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: /ˈvotum/ [ˈfo.t̪ʊm]
* Rhymes: -otum
* Syllabification: vo‧tum

### Noun

votum (plural votum-votum)
* (literally) a vow or promise made to a deity.
* vote:
** a formalized choice on legally relevant measures such as employment or appointment to office or a proceeding about a legal dispute.
    Synonyms: setem, suara
** an act or instance of participating in such a choice, e.g., by submitting a ballot.
    Synonyms: setem, suara
* (Protestantism) a public declaration of dependence on God that takes place at the beginning of a service in reformed worship.

#### Derived terms

* votum kepercayaan

### Further reading

* “votum” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, 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: /ˈu̯oː.tum/, [ˈu̯oːt̪ʊ̃ˑ]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈvo.tum/, [ˈvɔːt̪um]

### Etymology 1

From voveō (“vow”).

#### Noun

vōtum n (genitive vōtī); second declension
* promise, dedication, vow, solemn pledge
    Synonyms: pignus, fīdūcia
* determination, will, desire
* prayer, devotion
    Synonym: prex

##### Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

##### Derived terms

* votis XX

##### Related terms

* vōtifer
* vōtīvitās
* vōtīvus
* vōtus
* voveō

##### Descendants

* Italo-Romance:
** Italian: voto, boto
** Sicilian: vutu, votu
* Gallo-Italic:
** Piedmontese: vut
* Gallo-Romance:
** Catalan: boda (or from Ibero-Romance)
** Occitan: vòt
** Old French: vut
*** French: vœu
*** → English: vow
* Ibero-Romance:
** Aragonese: 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
***** → Romanian: vot
*** → 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
#### Participle

vōtum
* inflection of vōtus:
** accusative masculine singular
** 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’s 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, 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 E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “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)
* a vote

#### Synonyms

* stemme

#### Derived terms

* mistillitsvotum

### References

* “votum” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
* “votum” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin votum.

### Noun

votum n (definite singular votumet, indefinite plural votum, definite plural votuma)
* a vote

#### Synonyms

* stemme, røyst

#### Derived terms

* mistillitsvotum

### References

* “votum” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Swedish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin votum.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /²vuːt.ɵm/

### Noun

votum n
* vote

#### Derived terms

* förtroendevotum
* misstroendevotum

#### Related terms

* votera
* votering

### References

* votum in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* votum in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* votum in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)