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valete

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

Found 42 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Letters to his Friends 14.1.6: fac valeas et ad me tabellarios mittas, ut sciam quid agatur et vos quid agatis. mihi omnino iam brevis exspectatio est, Tulliolae et Ciceroni salutem dic. valete. D. a. d. vi K. Decembr. Dyrrhachi.

Pliny the Younger, Epistulae 3.10.6: … alem, ut vos putatis, effigiem conor efficere: quae hoc diuturnior erit, quo verior melior absolutior fuerit. Valete.

Plautus, Casina 4.4.834: Valéte.

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.