valise
English
a valise previously carried by US President Gerald Ford
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vəˈliːz/
Audio (Southern England) (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, 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,...
Derived terms
Translations
a piece of hand luggage such as a suitcase — see suitcase
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-.[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
Derived terms
Descendants
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.
Portuguese
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