elector vs voter what difference
what is difference between elector and voter
English
Etymology
From Middle English electour (“one with a right to vote in electing some office, elector”), borrowed from Late Latin ēlēctor (“chooser, selector; voter, elector”), from Latin ēligere (“to elect”) + -tor (suffix forming masculine agent nouns). Ēligere is the present active infinitive of ēligō (“to extract, pluck or root out; (figurative) to choose, elect, pick out”), from ē- (variant of ex- (prefix meaning ‘away; out’)) + legō (“to appoint, choose, select”) (from Proto-Italic *legō (“to gather, collect”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- (“to collect, gather”)).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɪˈlɛktə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /əˈlɛktɚ/
- Rhymes: -ɛktə(ɹ)
- Hyphenation: elect‧or
Noun
elector (plural electors)
- (politics) A person eligible to vote in an election; a member of an electorate, a voter.
- (Britain, Commonwealth of Nations) A person eligible to vote to elect a Member of Parliament.
- A member of an electoral college; specifically (US) an official selected by a state as a member of the Electoral College to elect the president and vice president of the United States.
- (historical) Alternative letter-case form of Elector (“a German prince entitled to elect the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire”).
- (Britain, Commonwealth of Nations) A person eligible to vote to elect a Member of Parliament.
Alternative forms
- electour (obsolete)
Derived terms
Related terms
- elect
- election
Translations
References
Further reading
- prince-elector on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- elector (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- voting on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- corelet, electro, electro-
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin elector.
Noun
elector m (plural electors, feminine electora)
- voter, elector
Derived terms
- electoral
- electorat
Further reading
- “elector” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “elector” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “elector” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “elector” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Latin
Etymology
From ēligō (“to choose, pick out”) + -tor (agentive suffix) from ex- (“out”) + legō (“to gather, collect”) from Proto-Italic *legō, from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-. Compare Ancient Greek ἐκλέγω (eklégō).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /eːˈleːk.tor/, [eːˈɫ̪eːkt̪ɔɾ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /eˈlek.tor/, [ɛˈlɛkt̪ɔr]
Noun
ēlēctor m (genitive ēlēctōris, feminine ēlēctrīx); third declension
- chooser, selector
- voter, elector
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Related terms
Descendants
References
- elector in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- elector in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 580
- elector in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, page 2378
Spanish
Etymology
From Late Latin ēlēctor (“chooser, selector”) (genitive singular ēlēctōris), from Latin ēligō (“to choose, pick out”), ex- + legō from Proto-Italic *legō (“to gather, collect”), from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-.
Noun
elector m (plural electores, feminine electora, feminine plural electoras)
- voter, elector
- Synonym: votante
Derived terms
- electorado
- electoral
Further reading
- “elector” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
English
Etymology
vote + -er
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈvəʊtə(ɹ)/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈvoʊtɚ/
- Rhymes: -əʊtə(ɹ)
Noun
voter (plural voters)
- Someone who votes.
- In your opinion, should we allow 16 and 17 year olds to become voters?
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- elector
Anagrams
- orvet, overt, trove
Bavarian
Alternative forms
- votar (Timau)
Noun
voter
- (Sappada, Sauris) father
References
- Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar, Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien.
Cornish
Noun
voter m (plural votoryon)
- (male) voter
Related terms
- votores (gender)
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vɔ.te/
- Homophones: votai, voté, votée, votées, votés, votez
Verb
voter
- to vote
Conjugation
Further reading
- “voter” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- orvet, torve, votre, vôtre
Norman
Etymology
Borrowed from English to vote.
Verb
voter (gerund vot’tie)
- (Jersey) to vote
Derived terms
- voter au scrutîn (“to ballot”)
- voteux (“voter”)
- vot’tie (“voting”)
