valentia

See also: Valentia and valentía

English

Noun

valentia (countable and uncountable, plural valentias)

  1. Alternative form of valencia

Anagrams

Catalan

Etymology

From valent + -ia.

Pronunciation

Noun

valentia f (plural valenties)

  1. (uncountable) bravery, valiance
  2. (countable) a brave deed, a bold act
    S'altre dia vaig fer una valentia. Vaig participar a sa triatló des Port.
    The other day I did a brave thing. I participated in the Port of Sóller Triathlon.

Italian

Etymology

From valente + -ia.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /va.lenˈti.a/
  • Rhymes: -ia
  • Hyphenation: va‧len‧tì‧a

Noun

valentia f (plural valentie)

  1. skill, ability

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

From valēns (strong, healthy) + -ia.

Noun

valentia f (genitive valentiae); first declension

  1. health, vigour, bodily strength

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative valentia valentiae
Genitive valentiae valentiārum
Dative valentiae valentiīs
Accusative valentiam valentiās
Ablative valentiā valentiīs
Vocative valentia valentiae

Descendants

  • Catalan: valença, valència
  • English: valence
  • French: vaillance
  • German: Valenz
  • Italian: valenza
  • Piedmontese: valensa
  • Portuguese: valência
  • Romanian: valență
  • Spanish: valencia

Participle

valentia

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of valēns

References

  • valentia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • valentia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • valentia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • valentia”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • valentia”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
  • valentia”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press

Portuguese

Etymology

From valente + -ia.

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /va.lẽˈt͡ʃi.ɐ/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /va.lẽˈt͡ʃi.a/
 

  • Hyphenation: va‧len‧ti‧a

Noun

valentia f (plural valentias)

  1. brave quality
  2. strength, robustness, vigor; energy
  3. resistance
  4. boldness; courage
    Synonyms: coragem, bravura
  5. (figuratively) feat
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