valor

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈvælɚ/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ælə(ɹ)

Noun

valor (usually uncountable, plural valors)

1. (American spelling) Alternative form of valour

Anagrams

• orval, roval, volar

Etymology

From Late Latin valor, valorem (“value”), from Latin valeō (“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)

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin valōrem, a noun based on Latin valēre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [bəˈlor]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [vəˈlor]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [vaˈlor]

• Audio:

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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

References

• “valor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “valor”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “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.

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese valor, from Late Latin valōrem, accusative of valor, from Latin valeō (“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)

Further reading

• “valor”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

Noun

valor (plural valores)

1. value (quantity, level)

Etymology

From Late Latin valor, valōrem, from Latin valeō.

Noun

valor m (plural valores)

1. value

Etymology

Found in Late Latin, from valeō (“I am worth, I am strong”) +‎ -or. Compare with the classical valētūdō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯a.lor/, [ˈu̯äɫ̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈva.lor/, [ˈväːlor]

Noun

valor m (genitive valōris); third declension

1. (Late Latin) value, worth

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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• valor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Noun

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

1. Alternative form of valur

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese valor, from Late Latin valōrem.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: (Portugal, São Paulo) -oɾ, (Brazil) -oʁ
• Hyphenation: va‧lor

Noun

valor m (plural valores)

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

   O valor do pi é 3,14.

   The value of pi is 3.14.

   • 2011, Wes McDermott, Criando Arte de Jogos 3D Para iPhone Com Unity, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 231:

     Você pode configurar quantas vezes o seu jogo vai executar seu ciclo de renderização. Por padrão, é definido e limitado a 30 FPS. Você pode alterar esse valor para renderizar a diferentes velocidades de projeção, como 60 FPS.

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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)

Further reading

• “valor”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish valor, from Late Latin valōrem, from Latin valeō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baˈloɾ/ [baˈloɾ]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: va‧lor

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

See also

• costo
• precio
• cuantía
• monto

Further reading

• “valor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Anagrams

• volar