English → Latin
“vote” in Latin
suffrāgiumvoting tablet; vote; judgementsententiaa way of thinking, view, opinion, judgement or sentence; a purpose, intention, will (one's thinking in respect to the fupungōto prick; to puncture; to stingvōtusvowed, promised; devoted to (a deity); having been vowedintersumto be or lie between; to be apart; to differsuffrāgātiōsuffrage, voting; interest; favor, supportambiōto round, go round, pass around, skirt; to surround, encircle; to solicit for votes, campaign, canvass
The English word vote itself goes back to Latin voveō, through vōtum.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
vote s.
PROP., suffragium (of a Roman citizen in the comitia): sententia (of a senator, judge, or of the people in the comitia): punctum (PROP., a mark in the tablet of a candidate). To give one’s vote by word of mouth, sententiam dicere; in writing, sententiam scribere: vote and interest, suffragatio (Cic.): a casting vote, perhaps *suffragium or punctum decretorium: *vox decretoria: to canvass for votes, ambire; circumire (circumire stronger than ambire: Cic., Att., 14, 21, Antonium circumire veteranos, ut acta Caesaris sancirent; that is, he made in his canvassing the round from first to last: ambire would only express his canvassing, and addressing the veterans in general; Vid: Döderlein, p. 12). To take the votes (in the Senate), patres in sententiam discedere or ire jubere; (in the comitia), populum in suffragium mittere; (in judicial trials), sententiam ferre jubere: to give one’s vote, Vid: the verb.
Figuratively, Vid: VOICE.
vote v.
sententiam ferre (to give a vote, said of a senator or a judge, or of the people in the comitia. ☞ Not, in this sense, sententiam dicere or dare, which = “to give an opinion,” “declare one’s sentiments :” said of a senator who proposes a measure or makes a motion in the Senate; whence the phrase in sententiam alicujus discedere, “to vote with anybody,” “to support his measure”): suffragium ferre (said of individuals in the comitia): in suffragium ire: suffragium inire (of the people in the comitia. ☞ Not suffragia dare, which = “to suffer to vote,” “to give the privilege of voting” = suffragium impartiri). To vote concerning, sententiam ferre de aliquo or de aliqua re (of judges): suffragium ferre de aliquo or de aliqua re (in the comitia). To vote in favor of a senator’s motion, in sententiam alicujus discedere: to vote in favor of or with, in sententiam pede (or, of several, pedibus) ire: to vote for (a candidate), suffragio suo ornare aliquem: suffragio suo adjuvare aliquem in petendis honoribus: suffragari alicui ad munus: to vote for anything, suffragari alicui rei.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for vote?
- The usual Latin words for “vote” are suffrāgium, sententia, pungō; also vōtus, intersum, suffrāgātiō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.