# vet
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /vɛt/
* Rhymes: -ɛt
* Audio (Southern England):(file)

### Etymology 1

Clipping of veterinarian.

#### Noun

vet (plural vets)
* (colloquial) A veterinarian or veterinary surgeon.
** 2011 December 14, Steven Morris, “Devon woman jailed for 168 days for killing kitten in microwave”, in Guardian‎:Colin Cameron, a vet who examined the dead animal, said there was "no doubt the kitten would have suffered unnecessarily" before dying.

##### Derived terms

* vet tech

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

Clipping of veteran.

#### Noun

vet (plural vets)
* (colloquial, US) A veteran (a former soldier or other member of armed forces).
** 1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Penguin Books (2014), page 73:“A former soldier, sir. A vet. Theyʼre all vets, a little shellshocked.”

##### Usage notes

Although veteran can be used in many contexts such as sports or business to describe someone with many years of experience, vet is usually used only for former military personnel.

##### Translations
### Etymology 3

Possibly by analogy from Etymology 1, in the sense of "verifying the soundness [of an animal]"

#### Verb

vet (third-person singular simple present vets, present participle vetting, simple past and past participle vetted)
* To thoroughly check or investigate particularly with regard to providing formal approval.
    The FBI vets all nominees to the Federal bench.
** 1980 March 10, Antony Jay, Jonathan Lynn, “The Economy Drive”, in Yes, Minister, season 1, episode 3, spoken by Jim Hacker and Humphrey Appleby (Paul Eddington and Nigel Hawthorne):Sir Humphrey Appleby: Nevertheless we do not admit it (the existence of MI6). Not everyone round this table has been vetted (pun). / Jim Hacker: I thought that's something you do to cats (laugh track). / Sir Humphrey Appleby: Yes indeed, but not ferrets, Minister (laugh track).
** 2000 September, “Corrupt and Farcical Elections”, in Racial Discrimination in Tibet‎, Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy, →OCLC, page 116:41 year-old Thupten from Golog Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture confirmed this threat of punishment. “The people in my area were very discontent when an election was announced. We knew that the candidates selected had already been carefully vetted by higher Chinese officials, and that our ‘voting’ was mere lip-service to Chinese claims of democracy, but we did it anyway.
** 2023, “How a Bill Becomes a Law”, in mnnurses.org‎:House and Senate Committees are made up of elected legislators who vet the bill and hear from stakeholders and members of the public.

##### Synonyms

* evaluate

##### Derived terms

* vetter

##### References

OED2

### See also

* red vet pet

### Anagrams

* ETV, EVT, TeV, VTE, Vte

## Albanian
### Alternative forms

* vetë, vehte

### Adjective

i vet
* his, her or their own
    Aleksandri është me Albanin dhe qenin e vet.Aleksandër is with Alban and his (own) dog.

#### Usage notes

Used in contexts where i tij (“his”), i saj (“her”) or i tyre (“their”) would be ambiguous. In the example sentence above, if "e vet" were replaced with "e tij", it would more likely refer to Alban's dog. The use of "vet" removes this ambiguity.

#### Declension
### See also
## Blagar
### Noun

vet
* coconut

### References

* A. Schapper, The Papuan Languages of Timor, Alor and Pantar: Volume 1

## Catalan
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin vetō.

#### Noun

vet m (plural vets)
* veto

### Etymology 2

Inherited from Latin videte, second-person plural present imperative of videō (“to see”). Compare French voici, voilà.

#### Adverb

vet
* there is
    vet aquí
       here's

##### See also

* heus
* (Algherese) mi-lo, mi-la, mi-los, mi-les

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈvɛt]

### Noun

vet
* genitive plural of veto

## Dutch
### Etymology

From Middle Dutch vet, from Old Dutch fētit, fet, from Proto-West Germanic *faitid, originally a past participle.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /vɛt/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: vet
* Rhymes: -ɛt

### Adjective

vet (comparative vetter, superlative vetst)
* fat
    Synonym: dik
* greasy
    Synonym: vettig
* emphatical, (in print) bold
    Synonyms: vetjes, dikgedrukt
* (informal) cool
    Synonyms: dik, lauw, cool
    Wow, vet! ― Wow, cool!

#### Derived terms

* aanvetten
* moddervet
* opvetten
* vervetten
* vetjes

#### Descendants

* Afrikaans: vet
* Berbice Creole Dutch: fete
* Negerhollands: vet, fet
* → Papiamentu: vèt

### Noun

vet n (plural vetten)
* fat
* grease

#### Derived terms

* bakvet
* braadvet
* buikvet
* darmvet
* frituurvet
* kaarsvet
* ontvetten
* ossenvet
* transvet
* vetarm
* vetberg
* vetdeeltje
* vetgans
* vetklep
* vetkoek
* vetkruid
* vetkuif
* vetlaag
* vetlaars
* vetleer
* vetmuur
* vetplant
* vetpot
* vetreserve
* vettig
* vetvogel
* vetvrij
* vetzuur

#### Descendants

* Berbice Creole Dutch: fete

### Adverb

vet
* (colloquial) very
    Hij is vet dik. ― He's very fat.

### Anagrams

* evt.

## Hungarian
### Etymology

Uncertain, perhaps from Proto-Finno-Ugric *wettä- (“to throw, fling, toss”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈvɛt]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛt

### Verb

vet
* (transitive) to throw, cast
* (ambitransitive) to sow
    ki mint vet, úgy arat ― reap what one sows (literally, “as one sows, so one reaps”)
* (chiefly construed as magára vet) Synonym of okol (“to blame”).
    Ha nem fogadod meg a tanácsom, magadra vess. ― If you don’t take my advice, you have only yourself to blame.

#### Conjugation

Note that vettem, vettél, vett etc. are not forms of this verb but those of vesz (“to take, buy”).

#### Derived terms

* vedlik
* vetekedik, vetekszik
* vetemedik → elvetemedik, megvetemedik
* vetemény
* vetemül → elvetemül → elvetemült
* vetetlen
* vetett
* vetél
* vetélkedik
* vetés
* vetít
* vetkőzik
* vetődik
* vetül
* hány-vet → hányaveti
* meghány-vet
* szánt-vet
* vállvetve
(With verbal prefixes):
* alávet
* átvet
* bevet
* belevet
* egybevet
* ellenvet
* előrevet
* elvet
* felvet
* hátravet
* hazavet
* idevet
* kivet
* közbevet
* levet
* megvet
* nekivet
* odavet
* összevet
* rávet
* szétvet
* utánavet
* visszavet
* aki szelet vet, vihart arat
* árnyékot vet
* bukfencet vet
* egy pillantást vet
* gáncsot vet
* gátat vet
* horgonyt vet
* kártyát vet
* keresztet vet
* ki mint veti ágyát, úgy alussza álmát
* lobbot vet
* rossz fényt vet
* számot vet
* ügyet sem vet, ügyet se vet
* véget vet
* képernyőre vet
* magára vet
* máglyára vet
* panyókára vet
* papírra vet
* szemére vet
* szemétdombra vet
* tűzre vet
* harcba vet
* ki mint vet, úgy arat
* latba vet

### References

* ↑ Entry #1143 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
* ↑ vet in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)

### Further reading

* vet in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

## Ingrian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Russian ведь (vedʹ).

### Pronunciation

* (Ala-Laukaa) IPA: /ˈʋet/, [ˈʋe̞d]
* (Soikkola) IPA: /ˈʋet/, [ˈʋe̞d̥]
* Rhymes: -et
* Hyphenation: vet

### Conjunction

vet
* after all
** 1936, N. A. Iljin and V. I. Junus, Bukvari iƶoroin șkouluja vart, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 56:Jo vet ono lumi maas.There's already snow on the ground, after all.
** 1936, D. I. Efimov, Lukukirja: Inkeroisia alkușkouluja vart (ensimäine osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 7:Miä vet saan lypsää, - halliaal meeleel vastais Ksenja.I can milk, after all - Ksenja answered in a grieving mood.

### References

* Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 650

## Middle Dutch
### Etymology

From Old Dutch fētit, fet, from Proto-West Germanic *faitid, originally a past participle.

### Adjective

vet
* fat, large (of humans or animals)
* (rich in) fat
* fatty, greasy
* fertile, rich in nutrients (of land)

#### Descendants

* Dutch: vet
** Afrikaans: vet
** Berbice Creole Dutch: fete
** Negerhollands: vet, fet
** → Papiamentu: vèt
* Limburgish: vèt

### Noun

vet n
* fat
* grease

#### Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

#### Descendants

* Dutch: vet
* Limburgish: vèt

### Further reading

* “vet (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
* “vet (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
* Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “vet (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I
* Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “vet (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page II

## Mwotlap
### Etymology 1

From Proto-Torres-Banks *βati, from Proto-North-Central Vanuatu *βati, from Proto-Oceanic *pati, from *pat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /βɛt/

#### Numeral

vet
* four

#### References

* François, Alexandre. 2025. Online Mwotlap–English–French cultural dictionary. Electronic files. Paris: CNRS. (Pdf version) – entry vet_1.

### Etymology 2

From Proto-Oceanic *patu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *batu, from Proto-Austronesian *batu.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /βɛt/

#### Noun

vet (determinate nevet)
* stone, rock
* money; vatu

#### References

* François, Alexandre. 2025. Online Mwotlap–English–French cultural dictionary. Electronic files. Paris: CNRS. (Pdf version) – entry vet_2.

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Alternative forms

* veit

### Verb

vet
* present tense of vite

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Verb

vet
* imperative of veta

## Old Swedish
### Verb

vēt
* first-person present indicative of vita
* third-person present indicative of vita

## Swedish
### Verb

vet
* present of veta; know, knows
    Jag vet inte.I do not know.
* imperative of veta
    Vet hut!Behave yourself!(literally, “Know decency!”)

### Anagrams

* tve-

## Vurës
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /βɛt/

### Etymology 1

From Proto-Torres-Banks *βatu, from Proto-Oceanic *patu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *batu, from Proto-Austronesian *batu.

#### Noun

vet
* stone, rock (of any size)

### Etymology 2

From Proto-Torres-Banks *βatu, from Proto-Oceanic *patuʀ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *batuʀ.

#### Noun

vet
* to weave or plait

##### Derived terms

* vetvet

### References

* 1 2 Catriona Malau (September 2021) “vet”, in A Dictionary of Vurës, Vanuatu (Asia-Pacific Linguistics), Australian National University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 210