valise
English
a valise previously carried by US President Gerald Ford
Etymology
Borrowed from French valise.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vəˈliːz/
Audio (UK) (file) - Rhymes: -iːz
Noun
valise (plural valises)
- A piece of hand luggage such as a suitcase or travelling bag.
- 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter LII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], OCLC 1000392275, page 40:
- Finding upon the corpse more money than was required for the funeral, he transmitted it to the abbess, together with a small valise, containing, besides apparel, some trifling articles of jewellery, and the bracelet transmitted to you,...
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Derived terms
- busted valise
- broken-down valise
Translations
a piece of hand luggage such as a suitcase — see suitcase
Anagrams
- Aviles, Avilés, Leivas, Savile, aviles, lavies
French
Etymology
Middle French valise, from Medieval Latin valesia, valixia, from Late Latin valisia, possibly from Gaulish *valisia (“leather bag”), from Proto-Celtic *val- (“to enclose, surround”), from Proto-Indo-European *welH-[1]. Or, possibly from Arabic وَلِيهَة (walīha, “large bag”).[2]
Maybe a borrowing through Italian valigia, even though this is dubious. Compare Spanish valija.[3]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /va.liz/
audio (file) - Homophones: valisent, valises
Noun
valise f (plural valises)
- case, suitcase
Derived terms
- dévaliser
- faire sa valise
- faire ses valises
- mot-valise
- poser ses valises
Descendants
- → Belarusian: валі́за (valíza)
- → Khmer: វ៉ាលីស៍ (vaalii)
- → Dutch: valies
- → Polish: waliza
- → Romanian: valiză
- → Turkish: valiz
- → Ukrainian: валі́за (valíza)
- → Vietnamese: va li
Further reading
- “valise”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
- Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN
- http://nq.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/issue_pdf/frontmatter_pdf/s9-X/247.pdf
- “valise”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- levais, salive, salivé
Portuguese
Alternative forms
- valisa
Etymology
From French valise.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /vaˈli.zi/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /vaˈli.ze/
Noun
valise f (plural valises)
- a small suitcase
- Synonym: maleta