different between vale vs valet

English

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

• enPR: v?l, IPA^(key): /ve?l/, [ve??]
• Rhymes: -e?l
• Homophones: veil, vail

Noun

vale (plural vales)

1. (chiefly poetic) A valley.

   Synonyms: dale; see also Thesaurus:valley

   Antonym: hill

Derived terms

Related terms

• valley

Translations

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin val?, singular imperative of vale? (“be well”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: vä?l?, IPA^(key): /?v??le?/

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

Aromanian

Noun

vale f (definite articulation valea)

1. Alternative form of vali

Czech

Etymology

Ultimately taken from Latin valeo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?val?]
• Rhymes: -al?

Interjection

vale

1. (archaic, informal) farewell, good bye

Synonyms

• sbohem; see ahoj

Related terms

Further reading

• vale in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• vale in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

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)

1. false

Noun

vale (genitive vale, partitive valet)

1. lie

Declension

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

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): /???le?/, [???le?(?)]
• Rhymes: -?le
• Syllabification: va?le

Noun

vale

1. (colloquial) A lie; an untruth; a fabrication.
2. As modifier in compound terms (vale-), false, virtual, pseudo-, fake

   valekuva = virtual image

   valepuku = disguise

   valeraskaus = false pregnancy

Declension

Synonyms

• (untruth): valhe, epätotuus

Derived terms

• valehdella

Compounds

Related terms

• valheellinen

Anagrams

• alve

Galician

Verb

vale

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

Ingrian

Noun

vale

1. lie (untruth)

Italian

Verb

vale

1. third-person singular present indicative of valere

Anagrams

• lave, leva, vela

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?u?a.le?/, [?u?ä??e?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?va.le/, [?v??l?]

Interjection

val?

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, val?te is used.

Descendants

• ? English: vale

Verb

val?

1. second-person singular present active imperative of vale?

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, 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.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /?va.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

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin vallis, vallem. Compare Aromanian vali.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?vale]

Noun

vale f (plural v?i)

1. valley

Declension

Related terms

• vâlcea

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bale/, [?ba.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

Derived terms

• valefacer (“to make 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. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of valer.
2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of valer.
3. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of valer.

Etymology 3

From Latin val? (“be well, goodbye”).

Interjection

vale

1. goodbye, be well

Swedish

Noun

vale ?

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

Anagrams

• elva, lave, leva, vela

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French valet, from Old French vaslet, from *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).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?væle?/, /?væl?t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?væle?/, /væ?le?/, /?væl?t/
• Rhymes: -æl?t, -æle?, -e?

Noun

valet (plural valets)

1. A man's personal male attendant, responsible for his clothes and appearance.
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.

Synonyms

• (personal attendant): butler (proscribed), gentleman's gentleman

Translations

References

• “valet”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “valet” in the Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Verb

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, London: Smith, Elder & Co., Volume I, Book 2, Chapter 2, p. 163,^[1]

     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, Marazan, London: Cassell, Chapter Seven,^[2]

     […] the red-haired boy who had valeted me in the morning appeared in a plain suit of black.

2. (transitive, chiefly Britain, Ireland) To clean and service (a car), as a valet does.
   • 2017, Stephen Maguire, “Hero Irish dad reveals he had to tell car valet he ‘wasn’t up to anything illegal’ after wife gave birth on back seat on Donegal road,” The Irish Sun, 7 March, 2017,^[3]

     He revealed: “We had been through a lot and I decided the car needed to be cleaned out after Georgina had to deliver the baby in the car.

     “You can imagine the scene when I left the car in for valeting. I got some funny looks and I had to explain to the guy that I wasn’t up to anything illegal because it did look a bit like a crime scene.”

3. (transitive, US) To leave (a car) with a valet to park it.
   • 2012, Jay Weston, “One of the Most Eligible Bachelors in L.A. Has 55 Ferraris.. and Takes Me for a Drive in One!” The Huffington Post, 30 May, 2012,^[4]

     I asked Giacomo if he ever valeted his car, and he twisted his face into a grimace as he replied, “Rarely, but I have done it. Nervous time.”

   • 2017, Rosalie R. Radomsky, “Emma Ludbrook and Tom Windish: Their First Date Was a Big Production,” The New York Times, 11 February, 2017,^[5]

     “‘Is this a date?’” Ms. Ludbrook recalled thinking during dinner. “I had valeted my car, and he hadn’t. He said, ‘Bye,’ and went to his car. Clearly this was not a date.”

Further reading

• Valet in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
• Valet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Estonian

Noun

valet

1. partitive singular of vale

French

Etymology

From Old French vaslet, from *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).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /va.l?/

Noun

valet m (plural valets)

1. (historical) a male attendant of a knight or a lord
2. (historical) 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

Descendants

• Turkish: vale

See also

Further reading

• “valet” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• levât

Latin

Verb

valet

1. third-person singular present active indicative of vale?

Middle French

Etymology

Old French vaslet.

Noun

valet m (plural valets)

1. manservant; (male) attendant

Descendants

• French: valet

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from French valet.

Noun

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

Derived terms

• valet d'fèrme (“farmhand”)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

valet n

1. singular definite of val

Portuguese

Etymology

From French valet

Noun

valet m, f (plural valets)

1. valet (a person employed to park cars)

Romanian

Etymology

From French valet.

Noun

valet m (plural vale?i)

1. valet

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French valet.

Noun

valet m (plural valets)

1. (card games) jack, knave

Swedish

Noun

valet

1. definite singular of val

Anagrams

• levat, velat