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/, [veɪɫ]

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• Rhymes: -eɪl
• Homophones: veil, vail

Noun

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,

Derived terms

Terms derived from vale

• Arnos Vale
• Ash Vale
• Aylesbury Vale
• Birch Vale
• Blackmore Vale
• Cliffe Vale
• Ebbw Vale
• Furness Vale
• Maida Vale
• Merthyr Vale
• Ogmore Vale
• Staunton in the Vale
• Streatham Vale
• Trent Vale
• Vale of Glamorgan
• Vale of Grwyney
• Vale of Neath
• Vale of White Horse
• Vale of York
• West Vale

Related terms

• valley

Translations

valley — see valley

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

• enPR: väʹlā, IPA^(key): /ˈvɑːleɪ/

  • Audio (UK)

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Interjection

vale

1. (usually seen in obituaries) Farewell.

   Vale, Sarah Smith

Related terms

• valediction
• valiant

Anagrams

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

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Aromanian

Etymology

From Latin vallis, vallem. Compare Romanian vale.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈvale]

Noun

vale f (definite articulation valea)

1. Alternative form of vali

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Czech

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin valeo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈvalɛ]
• Rhymes: -alɛ

Interjection

vale

1. (archaic, informal) farewell, good bye

Synonyms

• sbohem; see ahoj

Related terms

Related terms

• ambivalence
• ambivalentní
• bivalentní
• devalvace
• devalvovat
• ekvivalence
• ekvivalent
• ekvivalentní
• evaluace
• evaluovat
• invalida
• invalidita
• invalidní
• kovalence
• kovalentní
• prevalence
• prevalentní
• revalorizace
• revalorizovat
• revalvace
• revalvovat
• valedikce
• valence
• valentní
• validace
• validita
• validní
• validovat
• valorizace
• valorizovat
• valuace
• valut

Further reading

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

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Estonian

Etymology

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".

Adjective

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

1. false

Noun

vale (genitive vale, partitive valet)

1. lie

Declension

Inflection of vale (ÕS type 16/pere, no gradation)

	singular	plural
nominative	vale	valed
accusative	vale	valed
genitive	vale	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

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Fijian

Etymology

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.

Noun

vale

1. house
2. building

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Finnish

Alternative forms

• valhe

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

vale

1. (colloquial) lie; untruth; fabrication.
2. (as modifier in compounds) false, fake; virtual; pseudo-; see vale-

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

Possessive forms of vale (type hame)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	valeeni	valeemme
2nd person	valeesi	valeenne
3rd person	valeensa

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

• valehdella

Compounds

• See also under vale-.

• emävale
• kalavale
• valepukki

 

Related terms

• valheellinen

Anagrams

• alve

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Galician

Verb

vale

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

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Ingrian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *valeh.

Noun

vale

1. lie (untruth)

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Italian

Verb

vale

1. third-person singular present indicative of valere

Anagrams

• lave, leva, vela

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Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯a.leː/, [ˈu̯äɫ̪eː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈva.le/, [ˈväːle]

• Audio (Classical)

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Interjection

valē

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

     ave atque vale

     Hail and farewell

Usage notes

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

Descendants

• → English: vale

Verb

valē

1. second-person singular present active imperative of valeō

Synonyms

• ad Deum

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 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^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) good-bye; farewell: vale or cura ut valeas
    

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Middle English

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

• vaile, vayle, wale

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvaːl(ə)/

Noun

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.

Derived terms

• valen
• avalen

Descendants

• English: vale
• Scots: vale

References

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

Etymology 2

Verb

vale

1. Alternative form of valen

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Portuguese

Um vale.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Brazil) /ˈva.li/, [ˈva.li]

• IPA^(key): (Portugal) /ˈva.lɨ/, [ˈva.lɨ]

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

Etymology 1

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

Noun

vale m (plural vales)

1. valley

Related terms

• val

Etymology 2

From the verb valer (“to be worth”).

Noun

vale m (plural vales)

1. voucher, coupon

   Synonyms: (Brazil) cupom, (Portugal) cupão

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

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Romanian

Etymology

From Latin vallis, vallem. Compare Aromanian vali / vale.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈvale]

Noun

vale f (plural văi)

1. valley

Declension

Declension of vale

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(o) vale	valea	(niște) văi	văile
genitive/dative	(unei) văi	văii	(unor) văi	văilor
vocative	vale, valeo		văilor

Related terms

• vâlcea

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbale/, [ˈba.le]

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

   vale de comida ― meal ticket

Etymology 2

See valer.

Interjection

vale

1. (Spain) okay

Usage notes

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

Verb

vale

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

Etymology 3

From Latin valē (“be well, goodbye”).

Interjection

vale

1. goodbye, be well

Further reading

• “vale”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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Swedish

Noun

vale ?

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

Anagrams

• elva, lave, leva, vela

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Yola

Verb

vale

1. Alternative form of vall

References

• Jacob Poole (1867), 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, page 74