veto
Spanish, noun
veto is spelled V-E-T-O (4 letters) and appears 3.2 times per million words in written Spanish, the 16,530th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Veto is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “veto” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of vetar. With an accent, vetó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of vetar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Acción o efecto de vedar”.
What does veto mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineveto
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of vetar
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of vetar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Acción o efecto de vedar. 2. Derecho de una persona o corporación para vetar o impedir alguna cosa. Se refiere generalmente al poder que tiene una autoridad (generalmente el jefe de Estado) en algunos gobiernos representativos de negarse a sancionar alguna ley aprobada por el legislativo.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of veto
- vetos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to veto
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is veto in Spanish?
veto appears 3.2 times per million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).