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

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

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".

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

1. false

vale (genitive vale, partitive valet)

1. lie

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

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

vale

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

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

• valehdella

• See also under vale-.

• valheellinen

• alve

vale

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

From Proto-Finnic *valeh. Cognates include Finnish vale and Estonian vale.

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

vale

1. lie, untruth

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

vale

1. third-person singular present indicative of valere

• lave, leva, vela

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

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

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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

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, 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

• (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): [ˈβa.lɨ]
• Homophone: bale (Northern Portugal)
• Hyphenation: va‧le

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

vale m (plural vales)

1. valley

   Synonym: val

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

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈvale]

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

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

From Latin valē (“be well, goodbye”).

vale

1. goodbye, be well

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

vale ?

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

• tvi vale

• elva, lave, leva, vela

vale

1. Alternative form of vall
   • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:

     Vale a danceen.

     Set at dancing.

• 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