valid-, val-, vale-, -vail, -valent, -valence

(Latin: valere, to be strong, to be well, to be worth; strong; power, strength; and "fare well" [go with strength])


Ultima vale.
Farewell for the last time.

Also, Supremum vale or "Farewell for the last time"; that is, just before death takes over.

undervaluation
undervalue
univalence
univalent
uxoravalence
A condition of being sexually impotent with one's own wife but potent with other women. (See uxorovalence for the opposite condition).
uxoravalent
Sexually impotent with one's wife while being potent with other women.
uxorovalence
A condition of being sexually potent only with one's own wife but not with other women.
valance
vale
Farewell (goodbye, from late 16th century "God be with you").
Vale. (singular)
Farewell; Goodbye.

Used when addressing one person. Also see Valete (plural) and Ave atque vale.

Valeat quantum valere potest.
Take it for what it's worth; literally, "Let it stand for what it is worth". Used when passing on information that is of doubtful authenticity.
Valeat quantum valere potest.
Let it stand for what it is worth.

Also translated as, "Take it for what it is worth." A proper statement to make when one passes on information of doubtful authenticity.

valediction
1. The act of saying goodbye or an instance of leave taking.
2. The action of bidding or saying farewell (to a person, etc.); an instance of this; a farewell or leave-taking.
3. An utterance, discourse, etc., made at (or by way of) leave-taking or bidding farewell; especially, at a high-school commencement.
valedictocracy
"This truly will be an administration that looks like America, or at least that slice of America that got double 800s on their SATs. Even more than past administrations, this will be a valedictocracy, rule by those who graduate first in their high school classes."
—“The Insider’s Crusade” by David Brooks
from the New York Times and "Obama's valedictocracy", The International Herald Tribune;
November 21, 2008; page 5.

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