vale

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

• enPR: vāl, IPA^(key): /veɪl/

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• Rhymes: -eɪl
• Homophones: veil, vail

vale (plural vales)

1. (chiefly poetic) A valley.
   • 1767, Walter Harte, The Vision of Death, The Amaranth, Or Religious Poems, 1810, The Works of the English Poets, Volume 16, page 370,

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

   • a. 1854, James Montgomery, Hymn 214, The Issues of Life and Death,

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

   • 19th c, Alfred Tennyson, The Palace of Art,

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

• (valley): dale
  • See also Thesaurus:valley

• (valley): hill

• Aylesbury Vale
• Maida Vale
• Vale of Glamorgan
• Vale of White Horse

• valley

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

• enPR: väʹlā, IPA^(key): /ˈvɑːleɪ/

vale

1. (usually seen in obituaries) Farewell.

   Vale, Sarah Smith

• valediction
• valiant

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

vale f

1. Alternative form of vali

Ultimately taken from Latin valeo.

• IPA^(key): [ˈvalɛ]
• Rhymes: -alɛ

vale

1. (archaic, informal) farewell, good bye

• sbohem; see ahoj

• vale in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• vale in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

From Proto-Finnic *valeh. 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)

1. false

vale (genitive vale, partitive valet)

1. lie

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 *valeh. Possibly from valaa (“to cast”) through val +‎ -e or rather the equivalent in Proto-Finnic. Cognate to Estonian vale.

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

vale

1. (colloquial) A lie; an untruth; a fabrication.
2. As modifier in compound terms (vale-), false, virtual, pseudo-, fake
   • valekuva = virtual image
   • valepuku = disguise
   • valeraskaus = false pregnancy

• (untruth): valhe, epätotuus

• valehdella

• valheellinen

• alve

vale

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

vale

1. lie (untruth)

vale

1. third-person singular present indicative of valere

• lave, leva, vela

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈwa.leː/, [ˈwa.ɫeː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈva.le/, [ˈvaː.le]

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valē

1. Goodbye, farewell.
   • Catullus, Catullus 101

     ave atque vale

     Hail and farewell

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

valē

1. second-person singular present active imperative of valeō

• 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, 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
    

vale c (plural vales)

1. valley

• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈva.le/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈva.lɨ/
• Hyphenation: va‧le

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

vale m (plural vales)

1. valley

• val

From the verb valer (“to be worth”).

vale m (plural vales)

1. voucher, coupon

• (coupon): cupom (Brazil), cupão (Portugal)

vale

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of valer
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of valer

From Latin vallis, vallem.

• IPA^(key): [ˈvale]

vale f (plural văi)

1. valley

• vâlcea

• IPA^(key): /ˈbale/

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

vale m (plural vales)

1. A voucher; an IOU.

• valefacer (“to make an IOU”)

See valer.

vale

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of valer.
2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of valer.
3. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of valer.

vale

1. (Spain) okay

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

From Latin valē (“be well, goodbye”).

vale

1. goodbye, be well

vale ?

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