"valet" meaning in French

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Noun

IPA: /va.lɛ/ Audio: Fr-valet.ogg Forms: valets [plural]
Etymology: 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). Etymology templates: {{glossary|Inherited}} Inherited, {{inh|fr|fro|vaslet|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Old French vaslet, {{inh+|fr|fro|vaslet}} Inherited from Old French vaslet, {{der|fr|ML.|*vassellittus}} Medieval Latin *vassellittus, {{der|fr|LL.|vassallus||manservant, domestic, retainer}} Late Latin vassallus (“manservant, domestic, retainer”), {{der|fr|la|vassus||servant}} Latin vassus (“servant”), {{der|fr|cel-gau|*wassos||young man, squire}} Gaulish *wassos (“young man, squire”), {{der|fr|cel-pro|*wastos||servant}} Proto-Celtic *wastos (“servant”), {{cog|sga|foss}} Old Irish foss, {{cog|cy|gwas}} Welsh gwas Head templates: {{fr-noun|m}} valet m (plural valets)
  1. (history) a male attendant of a knight or a lord Tags: masculine Categories (topical): History
    Sense id: en-valet-fr-noun-6IeVH1k8 Topics: history, human-sciences, sciences
  2. (history) officer belonging to the king's house or a princely house, also valet de chambre Tags: masculine Categories (topical): History
    Sense id: en-valet-fr-noun-egqbHJ4C Categories (other): French entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of French entries with incorrect language header: 16 45 6 20 14 Topics: history, human-sciences, sciences
  3. a male servant, a footman Tags: masculine
    Sense id: en-valet-fr-noun-xvI4ZdDO
  4. a wooden stand on which to hold clothes and accessories in preparation for dressing, also valet de nuit Tags: masculine
    Sense id: en-valet-fr-noun-cgsKL9~L
  5. (card games) jack Tags: masculine Categories (topical): Card games, Card games, Poker
    Sense id: en-valet-fr-noun-MWERWefm Disambiguation of Card games: 10 24 18 14 33 Disambiguation of Poker: 10 25 15 15 35 Topics: card-games, games
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: valet d’écurie
Related terms: as, deux, trois, quatre, cinq, six, sept, huit, neuf, dix, dame, roi, joker

Inflected forms

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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/01/Fr-valet.ogg",
      "text": "Audio"
    }
  ],
  "word": "valet"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable French dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.