Question 1

What words are synonyms of the French word "valet"?

Accepted Answer

<ul><li>laquais</li></ul>

Question 2

What does "valet" mean in French?

Accepted Answer

A young squire in the service of a lord.
Designation of servants and servants who held certain offices in the household (of the king and in those of princes, nobles...) on a farm or in civil society, of which only a few designations are still in use. (see derived functions)
A card on which the figure of a page or valet is painted, and which exists in each of the four colors of a game.
Designates certain tools, accessories or mechanical organs that perform the function of a servant or an aid.
An iron tool with a bent end that is used to immobilize on the workbench the piece of wood that is being worked on.
A wooden or woven straw ring that allows a vase with a convex bottom to be placed in balance.
A counterweight placed behind a door to make it close by itself.
Small support, stand, behind a portable mirror.
A ball of caret thread that held the load in the cannon.
Designates someone servile and devoted to a man, a cause...or to pecuniary advantages.
The son.

Question 3

What is the plural of the French word "valet"?

Accepted Answer

valets

Question 4

Where does the French word "valet" come from?

Accepted Answer

From the Vulgar Latin vassellittus, a supposed diminutive of the form vassus, which may also be the origin of vassalus which gives vaslet in Old French and vassal.

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