different between valiant vs valor

English

Etymology

From Middle English vailaunt (“having or showing courage or valour, valiant; characterized by valour; powerful, strong; person of valour or strength; excellent, worthy; beneficial, useful; valuable; legally valid, binding”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman vaillaunt, vaylant [and other forms], and Old French vailant, vaillant (“brave, valiant; having value, valuable”) [and other forms], from the present participle of valoir (“to have value; to be worth”), from Latin val?re, the present active infinitive of vale? (“to have value; to be worth; to be strong; to have influence or power”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h?welh?- (“powerful, strong; to rule”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?væ.lj?nt/, /?va.l?.?nt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?væ.lj?nt/
• Hyphenation: va?liant, va?li?ant

Adjective

valiant (comparative more valiant, superlative most valiant)

1. Possessing or showing courage or determination; brave, heroic.

   Synonyms: bold, valorous; see also Thesaurus:brave

   Antonyms: see Thesaurus:cowardly
2. Characterized by or done with bravery or valour.

Alternative forms

• valiaunt (obsolete)

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

valiant (plural valiants)

1. (obsolete) A person who acts with valour, showing hero-like characteristics in the midst of danger.

References

Further reading

• valiant (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Latvian, Talivan

English

Alternative forms

• valour

Etymology

From Middle English valour, from Anglo-Norman valour, from Latin valor. Compare Spanish valor and valer.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?væl?/
• Rhymes: -æl?(?)

Noun

valor (usually uncountable, plural valors) (American spelling)

1. Value; worth.
2. Strength of mind in regard to danger; that quality which enables a person to encounter danger with firmness

   Synonyms: bravery, courage, prowess, intrepidity

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

• orval, roval, volar

Asturian

Etymology

From Late Latin valor, valorem (“value”), from Latin vale? (“I am strong”).

Noun

valor m (plural valores)

1. value (numerical quantity measured, assigned or computed)
2. price; cost
3. value (quality that renders something desirable or valuable)
4. value (the degree of importance one gives to something)
5. courage; bravery
6. (music) value (the relative duration of a musical note)

Related terms

• valiosu
• valir
• valorar
• valerosu

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan valor, from Late Latin val?rem, accusative of valor, from Latin vale?.

Noun

valor m (plural valors)

1. value; worth

   El mes de febrer de 1888, doncs, Eduard Toda ja ha reunit un fons bibliogràfic de valor considerable.

   February 1888, therefore, Eduard Toda set up a bibliographic database of considerable value

Derived terms

• valorar

Related terms

• valdre / valer
• valent

Further reading

• “valor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “valor” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “valor” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “valor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Galician

Etymology

From Old Portuguese valor, from Late Latin val?rem, accusative of valor, from Latin vale? (“I am strong”).

Noun

valor m (plural valores)

1. price; cost
2. value (quality that renders something desirable or valuable)
3. value (the degree of importance one gives to something)
4. value (numerical quantity measured, assigned or computed)
5. courage; bravery
6. (music) value (the relative duration of a musical note)

Related terms

• valer
• valioso
• valorar
• valoroso

Further reading

• “valor” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Interlingua

Noun

valor (plural valores)

1. value (quantity, level)

Ladin

Etymology

From Late Latin valor, val?rem, from Latin vale?.

Noun

valor m (plural valores)

1. value

Latin

Etymology

Found in Late Latin, from vale? (“I am worth, I am strong”) +? -or. Compare with the classical val?t?d?.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?u?a.lor/, [?u?ä???r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?va.lor/, [?v??l?r]

Noun

valor m (genitive val?ris); third declension

1. (Late Latin) value, worth

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

References

• valor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• valor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• valor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Old French

Noun

valor m (oblique plural valors, nominative singular valors, nominative plural valor)

1. Alternative form of valur

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese valor, from Late Latin val?rem, accusative of valor, from Latin vale? (“I am strong”).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /v?.?lo?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /va.?lo?/
  • (Paulista) IPA^(key): /va.?lo?/, /va.?lo?/
  • (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /va.?lo?/, /va.?lo?/
• Hyphenation: va?lor

Noun

valor m (plural valores)

1. value (numerical quantity measured, assigned or computed)

2. value (the degree of importance one gives to something)
3. price; cost

   Synonyms: custo, preço

4. value (quality that renders something desirable or valuable)

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:valor.

Derived terms

Related terms

• valer
• valente

Descendants

• Kadiwéu: iniwaló

Further reading

• “valor” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish valor, from Late Latin val?rem, accusative of valor, from Latin vale?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba?lo?/, [ba?lo?]

Noun

valor m (plural valores)

1. value (all senses) (clarification of this definition is needed)
2. (finance) security
3. worth

   Synonym: valía

4. courage

   Synonyms: coraje, arrojo, decisión, agallas

   Antonyms: cobardía, miedo, temor

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Cebuano: balor

See also

• costo
• precio
• cuantía
• monto

Anagrams

• volar

Further reading

• “valor” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.