Vale

Vale is a Latin form of valeo, meaning “be strong, be well; have power”. It is the 2nd person singular present active imperative.

Found 643 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 8.0.9: Sed ego nimirum, dum omnes excusationis causas colligo ne cum Caesare conferar, hoc ipsum crimen arrogantiae subeo, quod me iudicio cuiusquam existimem posse cum Caesare comparari. Vale.

Cicero, Letters to his Friends 3.1.3: … s, sed idem scribit meas litteras maximum apud te pondus habituras. id eum ne fallat, etiam atque etiam rogo. vale.

Suetonius, Divus Augustus 99.1.1: omnibus deinde dimissis, dum aduenientes ab urbe de Drusi filia aegra interrogat, repente in osculis Liuiae et in hac uoce defecit: 'Liuia, nostri coniugii memor uiue, ac uale!' sortitus exitum facilem et qualem semper optauerat.

All forms of valeo (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.