valet
English
/ˈvæleɪ/, /ˈvæleɪ/
noun
Definitions
- A man's personal male attendant, responsible for his clothes and appearance.
- A hotel employee performing such duties for guests.
- (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.
- A female chaperone who accompanies a man, and is usually not married to him.
- A person employed to clean or park cars.
- A person employed to assist the jockey and trainer at a racecourse.
- A wooden stand on which to hold clothes and accessories in preparation for dressing.
- A kind of goad or stick with an iron point.
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French valet inherited from Old French vaslet derived from Latin vassallus (vassal) derived from Gaulish *wassos (squire, young man) derived from Proto-Celtic *wastos (servant).
Origin
Proto-Celtic
*wastos
Gloss
servant
Concept
Semantic Field
Social and political relations
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- *vassellittus Latin
- vallettus Latin
- vasallo Latin
- vassallus Latin
- vassus Latin
- valet French
- *gaizaz Proto-Germanic
- fos Irish
- vaslet Old French
- vassal Old French
- vasselet Old French
- gwas Welsh
- gwasanaeth Welsh
- heddwas Welsh
- foss Old Irish
- valet Middle French
- vassalo Old Portuguese
- *wastos Proto-Celtic
- vasallo Old Spanish
- *wassos Gaulish
- uassos Gaulish
- gos Cumbric