different between vigil vs valor

English

Etymology

From Middle English vigile (“a devotional watching”), from Old French vigile, from Latin vigilia (“wakefulness, watch”), from vigil (“awake”), from Proto-Indo-European *we?- (“to be strong, lively, awake”). See also wake, from the same root.

Related to vigor, and more distantly compare vis and vital, from similar Proto-Indo-European roots and meanings (lively, power, life), via Latin. For use of “live, alive” in sense “watching”, compare qui vive.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?v?d??l/
• Rhymes: -?d??l

Noun

vigil (plural vigils)

1. An instance of keeping awake during normal sleeping hours, especially to keep watch or pray.
2. A period of observation or surveillance at any hour.

   His dog kept vigil outside the hospital for eight days while he was recovering from an accident.

3. The eve of a religious festival in which staying awake is part of the ritual devotions.
4. A quiet demonstration in support of a cause.

   The protesters kept vigil outside the conference centre in which the party congress was being held.

Synonyms

• (watch, especially at night): lookout, look-out, qui vive, watch

Related terms

• vigilance
• vigilant
• vigilation
• vigilous

Translations

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *we?- (“to be strong, lively, awake”), whence vige?.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?u?i.?il/, [?u??????]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?vi.d??il/, [?vi?d??il]

Adjective

vigil (genitive vigilis); third-declension one-termination adjective

1. awake, watching, alert

Declension

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

Noun

vigil m (genitive vigilis); third declension

1. watchman, guard, sentinel; constable, fireman
2. (in the plural) the watch, police, constabulary

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

• vigilia
• vigil?

Descendants

References

• vigil in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vigil in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vigil in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

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.