vale

See also: Vale, valé, valè, valê, valë, and vale-

English

A vale

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

  • enPR: vāl, IPA(key): /veɪl/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -eɪl
  • Homophone: veil

Noun

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.
Synonyms
  • (valley): dale
    • See also Thesaurus:valley
Antonyms
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

  • enPR: väʹlā, IPA(key): /ˈvɑːleɪ/

Interjection

vale

  1. (usually seen in obituaries) Farewell.
    Vale, Sarah Smith

Anagrams

Aromanian

Noun

vale f

  1. Alternative form of vali

Czech

Etymology

Latin valeo

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈvalɛ]
  • Rhymes: -alɛ

Interjection

vale

  1. (archaic, informal) farewell, good bye

Synonyms

Further reading

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

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic [Term?]. 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".

Adjective

vale (genitive vale, partitive valet)

  1. false

Noun

vale (genitive vale, partitive valet)

  1. lie

Declension

Fijian

Etymology

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.

Noun

vale

  1. house
  2. building

Finnish

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

vale

  1. (colloquial) A lie; an untruth; a fabrication.
  2. As modifier in compound terms (vale-), false, virtual, pseudo-, fake

Declension

Inflection of vale (Kotus type 48/hame, no gradation)
nominative vale valeet
genitive valeen valeiden
valeitten
partitive valetta valeita
illative valeeseen valeisiin
valeihin
singular plural
nominative vale valeet
accusative nom. vale valeet
gen. valeen
genitive valeen valeiden
valeitten
partitive valetta valeita
inessive valeessa valeissa
elative valeesta valeista
illative valeeseen valeisiin
valeihin
adessive valeella valeilla
ablative valeelta valeilta
allative valeelle valeille
essive valeena valeina
translative valeeksi valeiksi
instructive — valein
abessive valeetta valeitta
comitative — valeineen

Synonyms

  • (untruth): valhe, epätotuus

Derived terms

Anagrams

Galician

Verb

vale

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

Ingrian

Noun

vale

  1. lie (untruth)

Italian

Verb

vale

  1. third-person singular present indicative of valere

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Interjection

valē

  1. Goodbye, farewell.

Usage notes

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

Verb

valē

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of valeō

References

  • 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

Novial

Noun

vale c (plural vales)

  1. valley

Portuguese

Um vale.

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

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

Noun

vale m (plural vales)

  1. valley

Etymology 2

From the verb valer (“to be worth”).

Noun

vale m (plural vales)

  1. voucher, coupon
Synonyms

Verb

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

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin vallis, vallem.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈvale]

Noun

vale f (plural văi)

  1. valley

Declension

Spanish

Etymology 1

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

Noun

vale m (plural vales)

  1. A voucher; an IOU.
Derived terms

Etymology 2

See valer.

Verb

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.

Interjection

vale

  1. (Spain) okay
Usage notes

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

Etymology 3

From Latin valē (“be well, goodbye”).

Interjection

vale

  1. goodbye, be well

Swedish

Noun

vale ?

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