Where does “veto” come from?
veto (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from Latin veto, from Latin voto, from Proto-Italic wetā(je)-, from Proto-Indo-European weth₂- — to say.
veto (Norwegian Bokmål): a veto
Ancestry of “veto”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Latin | veto | I forbid, oppose, veto; I forbid it! I protest! |
| 2 | Latin | voto | dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of... |
| 3 | Proto-Italic | wetā(je)- | — |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | weth₂- | to say |