Vale

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Middle English: from Old French val, from Latin vallis, valles .

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

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

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vale (n.)

river-land between two ranges of hills, early 14c., from Old French val "valley, vale" (12c.), from Latin vallem (nominative vallis, valles) "valley" (see valley). Now "little used except in poetry" [Century Dictionary]. Vale of years "old age" is from "Othello." Vale of tears "this world as a place of trouble" is attested from 1550s. An older phrase in the same sense was dale of dol (mid-15c.).