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Definition: Votive |
VotiveAdjective1. Dedicated in fulfillment of a vow; "votive prayers". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "votive" was first used: 1593. (references) |
Etymology: Votive \Vo"tive\, adjective. [Latin expression votivus, from votum vow: compare to the French expression votif. See Vow.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Promise | Adjective: promising; Verb: promissory; votive; under hand and seal, upon oath. |
Worship | Oblation, sacrifice, incense, libation; burnt offering, heave offering, votive offering; offertory. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Votive |
| English words defined with "votive": Votive medal, Votive offering. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "votive": Cut neither Nails nor Hair at Sea. (references) |
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Consumer Goods | |||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Vienna. The Votive Church.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Votive" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Votive" is used about 63 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 63 | 42,364 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "votive": votive medal ♦ votive offering ♦ votive tablet. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "votive"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | kushtimor. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | معبر عن رغبة, نذري, وفاء النذر. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | обречен (devoted, fated, foredoomed), обещан (covenanted, engaged, promised). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | votivní, zaslíbený. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | نذری , نذرشده . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | votif. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Weih.... (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αναθηματικόσ, αφιερωτικόσ (dedicatory, oblational, oblatory). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | של "ר. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | fogadalmi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | votivo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 献灯 (a votive lantern in a shrine or temple), 絵馬 (votive picture), 納札 (votive card or tablet), 奉献物 (votive offering), 奉納額 (votive tablet), 奉納物 (votive offering), 奉灯 (votive lantern). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | のうさつ (bewitch, enchant, fascinate, votive card or tablet), ほうのうがく (votive tablet), ほうのうぶつ (votive offering), ほうけ"ぶつ (votive offering), ほうとう (clique, dissipation, faction, gun turret, light of Buddhism, prodigality, reply to the throne, summit of a peak, treasured sword, two-storied Buddhist tower, votive lantern), け"とう (a votive lantern in a shrine or temple, aim, approx, be found, boxing, consideration, direction, door light, estimate, examination, fighting bravely, good fight, good luck!, good pitching, guess, investigation, lamp or electric light at the eaves of a house, mark, prizefighting, scrutiny, strenuous efforts, study, winter), えま (votive picture), えうま (votive picture). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | breearragh (avowable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | otivevay votivo. (various references) votiv. (various references) исполненный по обету. (various references) zavetovan (pledged), zavetni (testimonial). (various references) votivo. (various references) offergåva. (various references) adak olarak verilen (votive offering). (various references) виконаний за обітницею. (various references) dâng cúng để thực hiện lời nguyền. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | votivus. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "votive": votively, votiveness, votivenesses. (additional references) | |
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"Votive" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dotive, vatie, vetiver, voite, voitive, voltive, votef, votibe, votice, votif, votife, votile, votue, votv. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "votive" (pronounced 'Vo"tive'): Abjunctive, Absorptive, Abstractive, Accretive, Active, Adductive, Adscriptive, Affective, Afflictive, Appetitive, Arbustive, Architective, Assumptive, Astrictive, Astructive, Attentive, Benedictive, Calefactive, Chylifactive, Circumscriptive, Circumspective, Coactive, Collative, Completive, Compunctive, Conceptive, Concretive, Conglutinative, Conjunctive, Contortive, Convective, Costive, Creative, Deceptive, Decretive, Defunctive, Depletive, Descriptive, Diffractive, Discerptive, Discretive, Distinctive, Distractive, Eductive, Elative, Electro-motive, Emotive, Ententive, Excalfactive, Excerptive. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-o-t-v-v" | |
-2 letters: veto, vive, vote. | |
-3 letters: tie, toe, vet, vie, voe. | |
-4 letters: et, it, oe, ti, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-o-t-v-v" | |
+2 letters: vocative, volitive, vomitive, votively. | |
+3 letters: evocative, uvarovite, violative, vocatives, vomitives. | |
+4 letters: advocative, convective, innovative, motivative, overactive, overvoting, renovative, uvarovites, vasoactive, vivisector, vocatively, votiveness. | |
+5 letters: evaporative, evocatively, involvement, overviolent, provocative, slivovitzes, vivisection, vivisectors. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)56 6F 74 69 76 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)...- --- - .. ...- . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010110 01101111 01110100 01101001 01110110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)V o t i v e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0056 006F 0074 0069 0076 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)568186758871 |
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