avale

From Middle English avalen, from Old French avaler (“to descend”), a univerbation of a val (“to the valley”).

avale (third-person singular simple present avales, present participle avaling, simple past and past participle avaled)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To cause to descend; to lower; to let fall
2. (transitive, obsolete) To bring low; to abase.
3. (intransitive, obsolete) To descend; to fall; to dismount.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 8:

     And from their sweaty courses did avale.

• avalanche

• “avale”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

avale

1. allative singular of ava

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avale

1. inflection of avaler:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /aˈva.le/
• Rhymes: -ale
• Hyphenation: a‧và‧le

avale (obsolete)

1. Alternative form of aguale

• avale in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• avale in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
• Accademia della Crusca (p. 1961), “avale”, in Grande dizionario della lingua italiana (in Italian), volume 1, page 864

avale

1. Alternative form of avalen

avale

1. inflection of avalar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative