Valentia

From valentia (“competence, power, vigor”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /u̯aˈlen.ti.a/, [u̯äˈɫ̪ɛn̪t̪iä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /vaˈlen.t͡si.a/, [väˈlɛnt̪͡s̪iä]

Valentia f sg (genitive Valentiae); first declension

1. The name of several settlements in the Roman world, including:
   1. Valencia (the capital city of the modern autonomous community of Valencia, Spain)
   2. Valencia, Valencian Community (an autonomous community of modern Spain)
   3. Valencia (a province of the modern autonomous community of Valencia, Spain)
   4. Valence (a city and commune, the capital of the modern Drôme department, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, in southeastern France)

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

• French: Valence
• Portuguese: Valença
• Spanish: Valencia

• “Valentia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Valentia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.