valise

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English

a valise previously carried by US President Gerald Ford

Etymology

Borrowed from French valise.

Pronunciation

Noun

valise (plural valises)

  1. A piece of hand luggage such as a suitcase or travelling bag.

Translations

a piece of hand luggage such as a suitcase — see suitcase

Anagrams

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.[3]

Pronunciation

Noun

valise f (plural valises)

  1. case, suitcase.

Derived terms

Further reading

  1. ^ “valise”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
  2. ^ Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN
  3. ^ http://nq.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/issue_pdf/frontmatter_pdf/s9-X/247.pdf

Anagrams

Portuguese

Alternative forms

Etymology

From French valise

Noun

valise f (plural valises)

  1. a small suitcase

Synonyms

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