vale

From Middle English vale, from Old French val (“valley”), from Latin vallis, valles.

• enPR: vāl, IPA^(key): /veɪl/,

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• Rhymes: -eɪl
• Homophones: veil, vail, Vail

vale (plural vales)

1. (chiefly poetic) A valley.

   Synonyms: dale; see also Thesaurus:valley

   Antonym: hill

   • 1767, Walter Harte, “The Vision of Death”, in The Works of the English Poets, volume 16, published 1810, page 370:

     In those fair vales, by nature form'd to please, / Where Guadalquiver serpentines with ease,

   • 1832, Alfred Tennyson, The Palace of Art:

     "Make me a cottage in the vale," she said, / "Where I may mourn and pray.

   • a. 1854, James Montgomery, “Hymn 214”, in The Issues of Life and Death:

     Beyond this vale of tears / There is a life above,

• valley

Borrowed from Latin valē, singular imperative of valeō (“be well”).

• enPR: väʹlā, IPA^(key): /ˈvɑːleɪ/

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vale

1. (usually seen in obituaries) Farewell.

   Vale, Sarah Smith

• valediction
• valiant

• Leva, Veal, Vela, avel, eval, lave, leva, veal, vela

From Latin vallis, vallem. Compare Romanian vale.

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vale f (definite articulation valea)

1. Alternative form of vali

Ultimately from Latin valeo.

• IPA^(key):
• Rhymes: -alɛ

vale

1. (archaic, informal) farewell, good bye

   Synonyms: sbohem, see also ahoj

• “vale”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “vale”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

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vale

1. inflection of vaal:
   1. masculine/feminine singular attributive
   2. definite neuter singular attributive
   3. plural attributive

From Proto-Finnic *valëh. Cognate to Finnish valhe and Votic valõ. Possibly a derivation from valama, where the word originally might have meant "sausage poured into an intestine", which was then used idiomatically with the meaning of "lie".

vale (genitive vale, partitive valet, comparative valem, superlative kõige valem)

1. false

vale (genitive vale, partitive valet)

1. lie

From Proto-Central Pacific *vale, from Proto-Oceanic *pale, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *balay, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *balay, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *balay, from Proto-Austronesian *balay.

vale

1. house
2. building

• valhe

From Proto-Finnic *valëh. Cognate to Estonian vale. Perhaps equivalent to vala +‎ -e.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋɑleˣ/,
• Rhymes: -ɑle
• Hyphenation^(key): va‧le

vale

1. (colloquial or dialectal) Alternative form of valhe (“lie; untruth; fabrication”)

Commonly used in compounds: see vale-.

• (untruth): palturi, soopa, valhe, epätotuus

• valheellinen

• “vale”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-04

• alve

vale

1. inflection of valer:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative
2. inflection of valar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

From French avaler (“to swallow”).

• IPA^(key): /vale/

vale

1. to swallow

From Proto-Finnic *valëh. Cognates include Finnish vale and Estonian vale.

Perhaps from vallaa (“to lie”) +‎ -e, if the verb is not a back-formation from the noun instead.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈʋɑle/,
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈʋɑle/,
• Rhymes: -ɑle
• Hyphenation: va‧le

vale

1. lie, untruth

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 634

vale

1. third-person singular present indicative of valere

• lave, leva, vela

From the verb valeō (“I am well, healthy”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯a.leː/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈva.le/,

valē

1. Goodbye, farewell.
   • a. 54 BC, Catullus, Catullus 101

     ave atque vale

     Hail and farewell

• This is the singular form. When addressing a group, valēte is used.

• → English: vale

valē

1. second-person singular present active imperative of valeō

• ad Deum

• “vale”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vale”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vale in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• vale in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) good-bye; farewell: vale or cura ut valeas
    

Borrowed from Old French val, from Latin vallis. Compare valey.

• vaile, vayle, wale

• IPA^(key): /ˈvaːl(ə)/

vale (plural vales)

1. valley (depression between hills)
2. battlefield (place of battle)
3. (figuratively) (A place of) hardship.
4. (rare) An indentation or depression.

• valen
• avalen

• English: vale
• Scots: vale

• “vāle, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

vale

1. Alternative form of valen

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -ali, (Portugal) -alɨ, (Portugal, with apocope) -al
• Homophones: bale (Northern Portugal), val (Portugal)
• Hyphenation: va‧le

From Old Galician-Portuguese vale, val, from Latin vallis (“valley”).

• val

vale m (plural vales)

1. valley

Deverbal from valer (“to be worth”).

vale m (plural vales)

1. voucher, coupon

   Synonyms: (Brazil) cupom, (Portugal) cupão

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

vale

1. inflection of valer:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Inherited from Latin vallis, vallem. Compare Aromanian vali / vale.

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vale f (plural văi)

1. valley

• vâlcea

• IPA^(key): /ˈbale/
• Rhymes: -ale
• Syllabification: va‧le

A nominalisation of vale, third person singular active indicative of valer (“to be worth”).

vale m (plural vales)

1. a voucher; an IOU

   vale de comida ― meal ticket

See valer.

vale

1. (Spain) okay

   Synonyms: dale, sale, okey

• In Mexico, the complete expression sale y vale is also used to mean "OK".

vale

1. inflection of valer:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Borrowed from Latin valē (“be well, goodbye”).

vale

1. goodbye, be well

• “vale”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

vale ?

1. Fix sea mark on land (Historical use in West Sweden)

• tvi vale

• elva, lave, leva, vela

vale

1. Alternative form of vall
   • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:

     Vale a danceen.

     Set at dancing.

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 74