avale
See also: avalé
English
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English avalen, from Old French avaler (“to descend”), a univerbation of a val (“to the valley”).
Verb
editavale (third-person singular simple present avales, present participle avaling, simple past and past participle avaled)
- (transitive, obsolete) To cause to descend; to lower; to let fall
- (transitive, obsolete) To bring low; to abase.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To descend; to fall; to dismount.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 8:
- And from their sweaty courses did avale.
Related terms
editReferences
edit- “avale”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Estonian
editNoun
editavale
French
editPronunciation
editVerb
editavale
- inflection of avaler:
Italian
editPronunciation
editAdverb
editavale (obsolete)
- Alternative form of aguale
References
editMiddle English
editVerb
editavale
- Alternative form of avalen
Spanish
editVerb
editavale
- inflection of avalar:
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