Vala

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Vala

1. An object-oriented programming language with a self-hosting compiler that generates C code.

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• IPA^(key): [ˈvala]

Vala m anim (female equivalent Valová)

1. a male surname

• “Vala”, in Příjmení.cz (in Czech)

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(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈwa.ɫa]

• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈvaː.la]

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