Vala

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(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯a.la/, [ˈu̯äɫ̪ä]

• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈva.la/, [ˈväːlä]

Vala m sg (genitive Valae); first declension

1. A Roman cognomen — famously held by:
   1. Gaius Numonius Vala, an acquaintance of Horace

First-declension noun, singular only.

• “Vala, Numonius”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray