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valet

See also: válet

English edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Middle French valet, from Old French vaslet, from Medieval Latin *vassellittus, diminutive of Late Latin vassallus (“manservant, domestic, retainer”), from vassus (“servant”), from Gaulish *wassos (“young man, squire”), from Proto-Celtic *wastos (“servant”) (compare Old Irish foss and Welsh gwas).

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Noun edit

valet (plural valets)

  1. A man's personal male attendant, responsible for his clothes and appearance.
    Synonyms: (proscribed) butler, gentleman's gentleman
  2. A hotel employee performing such duties for guests.
  3. (professional wrestling) A female performer in professional wrestling, acting as either a manager or personal chaperone; often used to attract and titillate male members of the audience.
  4. A female chaperone who accompanies a man, and is usually not married to him.
  5. (US) A person employed to clean or park cars.
    Synonym: parking attendant
  6. A person employed to assist the jockey and trainer at a racecourse.
  7. A wooden stand on which to hold clothes and accessories in preparation for dressing.
  8. A kind of goad or stick with an iron point.

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Verb edit

valet (third-person singular simple present valets, present participle valeting, simple past and past participle valeted)

  1. (transitive) To serve (someone) as a valet.
    • 1866, Wilkie Collins, Armadale‎[1], London: Smith, Elder & Co., Volume I, Book 2, Chapter 2, p. 163:
      You can valet me, can you? Bother valeting me! I like to put on my own clothes, and brush them, too, when they are on; and if I only knew how to black my own boots, by George I should like to do it!
    • 1926, Neville Shute, chapter 7, in Marazan‎[2], London: Cassell:
      […] the red-haired boy who had valeted me in the morning appeared in a plain suit of black.
  2. (transitive, chiefly UK, Ireland) To clean and service (a car), as a valet does.
  3. (transitive, US) To leave (a car) with a valet to park it.

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Crimean Tatar edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Russian валет (valet).

Noun edit

valet

  1. (card games) jack

Declension edit

Declension of valet
singular plural
nominative valet valetler
genitive valetniñ valetlerniñ
dative valetke valetlerge
accusative valetni valetlerni
locative valette valetlerde
ablative valetten valetlerden

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Estonian edit

Noun edit

valet

  1. partitive singular of vale

French edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Old French vaslet, from Medieval Latin *vassellittus, diminutive of Late Latin vassallus (“manservant, domestic, retainer”), from Latin vassus (“servant”), from Gaulish *wassos (“young man, squire”), from Proto-Celtic *wastos (“servant”) (compare Old Irish foss and Welsh gwas).

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Noun edit

valet m (plural valets)

  1. (history) a male attendant of a knight or a lord
  2. (history) officer belonging to the king's house or a princely house, also valet de chambre
  3. a male servant, a footman
  4. a wooden stand on which to hold clothes and accessories in preparation for dressing, also valet de nuit
  5. (card games) jack
  6. (especially in the form valet de menuisier) a holdfast (a hooked tool to hold a workpiece down to a workbench)

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Descendants edit

  • → Bulgarian: вале́ (valé)
  • → Greek: βαλές (valés)
  • → Portuguese: valete
  • → Russian: вале́т (valét)
  • → Turkish: vale

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Playing cards in French · cartes à jouer (layout · text)
             
as deux trois quatre cinq six sept
             
huit neuf dix valet dame roi joker

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Latin edit

Verb edit

valet

  1. third-person singular present active indicative of valeō

Middle French edit

Etymology edit

Old French vaslet.

Noun edit

valet m (plural valets)

  1. manservant; (male) attendant

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Norman edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from French valet.

Noun edit

valet m (plural valets)

  1. (Jersey) This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
  2. (Jersey, card games) jack

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Norwegian Nynorsk edit

Noun edit

valet n

  1. singular definite of val

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Etymology edit

Unadapted borrowing from French valet.

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Noun edit

valet m or f by sense (plural valets)

  1. valet (a person employed to park cars)

Romanian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from French valet.

Noun edit

valet m (plural valeți)

  1. valet

Declension edit

Declension of valet
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) valet valetul (niște) valeți valeții
genitive/dative (unui) valet valetului (unor) valeți valeților
vocative valetule valeților

Spanish edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from French valet.

Noun edit

valet m (plural valets)

  1. (card games) jack, knave

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Noun edit

valet

  1. definite singular of val

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