valet

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English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Middle French valet, from Old French vaslet, from Medieval Latin *vassellittus, diminutive of Late Latin vassallus (“manservant, domestic, retainer”), from vassus (“servant”), from Gaulish *wassos (“young man, squire”), from Proto-Celtic *wastos (“servant”) (compare Old Irish foss and Welsh gwas).

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Noun

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valet (plural valets)

  1. A man's personal male attendant, responsible for his clothes and appearance.
    Synonyms: (proscribed) butler, gentleman's gentleman
  2. A hotel employee performing such duties for guests.
  3. (professional wrestling) A female performer in professional wrestling, acting as either a manager or personal chaperone; often used to attract and titillate male members of the audience.
  4. A female chaperone who accompanies a man, and is usually not married to him.
  5. (US) A person employed to clean or park cars.
    Synonym: parking attendant
  6. A person employed to assist the jockey and trainer at a racecourse.
  7. A wooden stand on which to hold clothes and accessories in preparation for dressing.
  8. A kind of goad or stick with an iron point.

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Verb

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valet (third-person singular simple present valets, present participle valeting, simple past and past participle valeted)

  1. (transitive) To serve (someone) as a valet.
    • 1866, Wilkie Collins, Armadale‎[1], London: Smith, Elder & Co., Volume I, Book 2, Chapter 2, p. 163:
      You can valet me, can you? Bother valeting me! I like to put on my own clothes, and brush them, too, when they are on; and if I only knew how to black my own boots, by George I should like to do it!
    • 1926, Neville Shute, chapter 7, in Marazan‎[2], London: Cassell:
      […] the red-haired boy who had valeted me in the morning appeared in a plain suit of black.
  2. (transitive, chiefly UK, Ireland) To clean and service (a car), as a valet does.
  3. (transitive, US) To leave (a car) with a valet to park it.

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Crimean Tatar

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Russian валет (valet).

Noun

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valet

  1. (card games) jack

Declension

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Declension of valet
singular plural
nominative valet valetler
genitive valetniñ valetlerniñ
dative valetke valetlerge
accusative valetni valetlerni
locative valette valetlerde
ablative valetten valetlerden

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Estonian

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Noun

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valet

  1. partitive singular of vale

French

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old French vaslet, from Medieval Latin *vassellittus, diminutive of Late Latin vassallus (“manservant, domestic, retainer”), from Latin vassus (“servant”), from Gaulish *wassos (“young man, squire”), from Proto-Celtic *wastos (“servant”) (compare Old Irish foss and Welsh gwas).

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Noun

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valet m (plural valets)

  1. (history) a male attendant of a knight or a lord
  2. (history) officer belonging to the king's house or a princely house, also valet de chambre
  3. a male servant, a footman
  4. a wooden stand on which to hold clothes and accessories in preparation for dressing, also valet de nuit
  5. (card games) jack
  6. (especially in the form valet de menuisier) a holdfast (a hooked tool to hold a workpiece down to a workbench)

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • → Bulgarian: вале́ (valé)
  • → Greek: βαλές (valés)
  • → Portuguese: valete
  • → Russian: вале́т (valét)
  • → Turkish: vale

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Playing cards in French · cartes à jouer (layout · text)
as deux trois quatre cinq six sept
huit neuf dix valet dame roi joker

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Latin

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Verb

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valet

  1. third-person singular present active indicative of valeō

Middle French

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Etymology

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Old French vaslet.

Noun

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valet m (plural valets)

  1. manservant; (male) attendant

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Norman

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French valet.

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valet m (plural valets)

  1. (Jersey) This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
  2. (Jersey, card games) jack

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Noun

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valet n

  1. singular definite of val

Portuguese

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from French valet.

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Noun

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valet m or f by sense (plural valets)

  1. valet (a person employed to park cars)

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French valet.

Noun

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valet m (plural valeți)

  1. valet

Declension

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Declension of valet
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) valet valetul (niște) valeți valeții
genitive/dative (unui) valet valetului (unor) valeți valeților
vocative valetule valeților

Spanish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French valet.

Noun

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valet m (plural valets)

  1. (card games) jack, knave

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Swedish

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Noun

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valet

  1. definite singular of val

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