valise

English

a valise previously carried by US President Gerald Ford

Etymology

Borrowed from French valise.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vəˈliːz/

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• Rhymes: -iːz

Noun

valise (plural valises)

1. 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, 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,...

   • 1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC:

     Though he studiously concealed his hand, this morning before breakfast, in writing the direction-card which he attached to the little brown valise of happier days, the eagle-glance of matrimonial anxiety detected, d, o, n, distinctly traced.

   • 1872 September – 1873 July, Thomas Hardy, “‘XXIII’”, in A Pair of Blue Eyes. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Tinsley Brothers, […], published 1873, →OCLC:

     In spite of the falling rain, which had somewhat lessened, he took a small valise in his hand, and, leaving the remainder of his luggage at the inn, ascended the hills towards East Endelstow.

   • 2024, “Nothing to Declare”, in Loss of Life, performed by MGMT:

     Nothing to declare / Not in the valise of my mind

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

Inherited from 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-. Or, possibly from Arabic وَلِيهَة (walīha, “large bag”).

Maybe a borrowing through Italian valigia, even though this is dubious. Compare Spanish valija.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /va.liz/

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• Homophones: valisent, valises

Noun

valise f (plural valises)

1. 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
• → Yiddish: וואַליזע (valize)

Further reading

• “valise”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• levais, salive, salivé

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• valisa

Etymology

Borrowed from French valise.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /vaˈli.zi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /vaˈli.zi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /vaˈli.ze/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /vaˈli.zɨ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /vaˈli.zɨ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /baˈli.zɨ/

Noun

valise f (plural valises)

1. a small suitcase

   Synonym: maleta