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4-letter words (6 found)

AVEL,LAVE,LEVA,VALE,VEAL,VELA,

3-letter words (6 found)

ALE,AVE,LAV,LEA,LEV,VAE,

2-letter words (5 found)

AE,AL,EA,EL,LA,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 18 words from vale according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of vale

vale avle vlae lvae alve lave vael avel veal eval aevl eavl vlea lvea vela evla leva elva alev laev aelv ealv leav elav

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Definitions and meaning of vale

vale

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

  • enPR: vāl, IPA(key): /veɪl/, [veɪɫ]
  • Rhymes: -eɪl
  • Homophones: veil, vail, 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 valē, singular imperative of valeō (be well).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: väʹlā, IPA(key): /ˈvɑːleɪ/

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

Etymology

From Latin vallis, vallem. Compare Romanian vale.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈvale]

Noun

vale f (definite articulation valea)

  1. Alternative form of vali

Czech

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin valeo.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈvalɛ]
  • Rhymes: -alɛ

Interjection

vale

  1. (archaic, informal) farewell, good bye
    Synonyms: sbohem, see also ahoj

Related terms

Further reading

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

Dutch

Pronunciation

Adjective

vale

  1. inflection of vaal:
    1. masculine/feminine singular attributive
    2. definite neuter singular attributive
    3. plural attributive

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *valëh. 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

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

vale

  1. (colloquial or dialectal) Alternative form of valhe (lie; untruth; fabrication)

Usage notes

Commonly used in compounds: see vale-.

Declension

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

Related terms

  • valheellinen

Further reading

  • vale”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-04

Anagrams

  • alve

Galician

Verb

vale

  1. inflection of valer:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative
  2. inflection of valar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French avaler (to swallow).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /vale/

Noun

vale

  1. to swallow

Ingrian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

vale

  1. lie, untruth

Declension

References

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

Italian

Verb

vale

  1. third-person singular present indicative of valere

Anagrams

  • lave, leva, vela

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

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[2], London: Macmillan and Co.

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

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: (Brazil) -ali, (Portugal) -alɨ, (Portugal, with apocope) -al
  • Homophones: bale (Northern Portugal), val (Portugal)
  • Hyphenation: va‧le

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese vale, val, from Latin vallis (valley).

Alternative forms

  • val

Noun

vale m (plural vales)

  1. valley
Related terms

Etymology 2

Deverbal from valer (to be worth).

Noun

vale m (plural vales)

  1. voucher, coupon
    Synonyms: (Brazil) cupom, (Portugal) cupão

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

vale

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

Romanian

Etymology

Inherited from Latin vallis, vallem. Compare Aromanian vali / vale.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈvale]

Noun

vale f (plural văi)

  1. valley

Declension

Related terms

  • vâlcea

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbale/ [ˈba.le]
  • Rhymes: -ale
  • Syllabification: va‧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 comidameal ticket

Etymology 2

See valer.

Interjection

vale

  1. (Spain) okay
    Synonyms: dale, sale, okey
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

Borrowed 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

Swedish

Noun

vale ?

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

See also

  • tvi vale

Anagrams

  • elva, lave, leva, vela

Yola

Verb

vale

  1. Alternative form of vall

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) 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, published 1867, page 74

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