vale

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

• enPR: vāl, IPA^(key): /veɪl/, [veɪɫ]

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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.

• IPA^(key): [ˈvale]

vale f (definite articulation valea)

1. alternative form of vali

Ultimately from Latin valeo.

• IPA^(key): [ˈvalɛ]
• 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

Declension of vale (ÕS type 16/pere, no gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		vale	valed
accusative	nom.
	gen.	vale
genitive			valede
partitive		valet	valesid
illative		valle valesse	valedesse
inessive		vales	valedes
elative		valest	valedest
allative		valele	valedele
adessive		valel	valedel
ablative		valelt	valedelt
translative		valeks	valedeks
terminative		valeni	valedeni
essive		valena	valedena
abessive		valeta	valedeta
comitative		valega	valedega

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/, [ˈʋɑ̝le̞(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -ɑle
• Syllabification^(key): va‧le
• 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]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 4 July 2023

• 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/, [ˈʋɑɫe̞]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈʋɑle/, [ˈʋɑɫe̞]
• Rhymes: -ɑle
• Hyphenation: va‧le

vale

1. lie, untruth

Declension of vale (type 6/lähe, no gradation, gemination)
	singular	plural
nominative	vale	valleet
genitive	valleen	vallein
partitive	valetta	valleita
illative	valleesse	valleisse
inessive	vallees	valleis
elative	valleest	valleist
allative	valleelle	valleille
adessive	valleel	valleil
ablative	valleelt	valleilt
translative	valleeks	valleiks
essive	valleenna, valleen	valleinna, vallein
exessive1)	valleent	valleint
1) obsolete *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive.

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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

vale

1. third-person singular present indicative of valere

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

vale

1. (rare, formal, humorous) goodbye, be well

vale

1. (poetic) farewell, final farewell to the dying or deceased

• lave, leva, vela

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈwa.ɫeː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈvaː.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
• → Italian: vale
• → Spanish: 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^[2], 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.

• IPA^(key): [ˈvale]

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vale f (plural văi)

1. valley

• vâlcea

• IPA^(key): /ˈbale/ [ˈba.le]
• 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], 10 December 2024

vale ?

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

• tvi vale

• elva, lave, leva, vela

Borrowed from French valet.

• IPA^(key): /ˈva.le/
• Hyphenation: va‧le

vale (definite accusative valeyi, plural valeler)

1. valet
2. (card games) jack

   Synonyms: bacak, oğlan, fanti

Playing cards in Turkish · iskambil (layout · text)
as, birli	ikili	üçlü	dörtlü	beşli	altılı	yedili
sekizli	dokuzlu	onlu	bacak, oğlan, vale, fanti	kız	papaz, rua	joker

• “vale”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Ayverdi, İlhan (2010) “vale”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “vale”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

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