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Latin for goodbye that sounds like a toast and means a ditch.
means A low stretch of land between hills, usually with a stream running through it — the poetic word for 'valley.'
from English 'vale' comes from Old French 'val,' from Latin 'vallis/vallem' meaning valley — no relation at all to the farewell 'vale' (from Latin 'valere,' to be well), despite the matching spelling. One word means 'be strong, farewell'; the other means 'low ground.' Latin simply handed English two unrelated words that happened to land the same.
- roman etymology
- literally means be well, as farewell
- landscape sense
- old english for a valley or dale
- california echo
- silicon valley once named for real orchards
- poetic use
- tennyson called life a vale of tears