# valor
## English
### Pronunciation

* (US) IPA: /ˈvælɚ/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ælə(ɹ)

### Noun

valor (usually uncountable, plural valors)
* (American spelling) Alternative form of valour

#### Derived terms

* discretion is the better part of valor
* pot-valor

### Anagrams

* orval, roval, volar

## Asturian
### Etymology

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

### Noun

valor m (plural valores)
* value (numerical quantity measured, assigned or computed)
* price; cost
* value (quality that renders something desirable or valuable)
* value (the degree of importance one gives to something)
* courage; bravery
* (music) value (the relative duration of a musical note)

#### Related terms

* valiosu
* valir
* valorar
* valerosu

## Catalan
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [bəˈlor]
* IPA: (Balearic) [vəˈlor]
* IPA: (Valencia) [vaˈlor]
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

valor m (plural valors)
* 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

### 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.

## Galician
### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese valor, from Late Latin valōrem, accusative of valor, from Latin valeō (“I am strong”).

### Noun

valor m (plural valores)
* price; cost
* value (quality that renders something desirable or valuable)
* value (the degree of importance one gives to something)
* value (numerical quantity measured, assigned or computed)
* courage; bravery
* (music) value (the relative duration of a musical note)

#### Related terms

* valer
* valioso
* valorar
* valoroso

### Further reading

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

## Interlingua
### Noun

valor (plural valores)
* value (quantity, level)

## Ladin
### Etymology

From Late Latin valor, valōrem, from Latin valeō.

### Noun

valor m (plural valores)
* value

## Latin
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

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

### Noun

valor m (genitive valōris); third declension
* (Late Latin) value, worth

#### Declension

Third-declension noun.

#### Descendants

* Albanian: vlerë
* Asturian: valor
* Catalan: valor
* English: valor, valour
* French: valeur f
* Friulian: valôr
* Galician: valor
* Interlingua: valor
* Italian: valore
* Norman: valeu
* Ladin: valor
* Occitan: valor
* Portuguese: valor
* Romanian: valoare
* Romansch: valur, valour
* Sardinian: balore, valore
* Sicilian: valuri
* Spanish: valor
** → Cebuano: balor
** → Tagalog: balor

### 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.

## Old French
### Noun

valor oblique singular, m (oblique plural valors, nominative singular valors, nominative plural valor)
* Alternative form of valur

## Portuguese
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /vaˈloʁ/ [vaˈloh]
* (Brazil) IPA: /vaˈloʁ/ [vaˈloh]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /vaˈloɾ/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /vaˈloʁ/ [vaˈloχ]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /vaˈloɻ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /vɐˈloɾ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /vɐˈloɾ/
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /bɐˈloɾ/
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /vɐˈlo.ɾi/
* Rhymes: (Portugal, São Paulo) -oɾ, (Brazil) -oʁ
* Hyphenation: va‧lor

### Noun

valor m (plural valores)
* value (numerical quantity measured, assigned or computed)
    O valor do pi é 3,14.The value of pi is 3.14.
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* value (the degree of importance one gives to something)
* price; cost
    Synonyms: custo, preço
* value (quality that renders something desirable or valuable)

#### Derived terms

* valoração
* valorado
* valorar
* valorativo
* valores
* valorímetro
* valorização
* valorizado
* valorizador
* valorizar
* valorizável
* valorosamente
* valorosidade
* valoroso
* valorzinho

#### Related terms

* valer
* valente

#### Descendants

* Kadiwéu: iniwaló

### Further reading

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

## Spanish
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /baˈloɾ/ [baˈloɾ]
* Audio (Colombia):(file)
* Rhymes: -oɾ
* Syllabification: va‧lor

### Noun

valor m (plural valores)
* value (all senses) (clarification of this definition is needed)
* (finance) security
* worth
    Synonym: valía
* courage
    Synonyms: coraje, arrojo, decisión, agallas
    Antonyms: cobardía, miedo, temor

#### Derived terms

* autovalor
* avalorar
* bolsa de valores
* de valor
* eigenvalor
* mercado de valores
* teoría del valor
* teoría del valor-trabajo
* título valor
* valeroso
* valor absoluto
* valor añadido
* valor característico
* valor de cambio
* valor de mercado
* valor de uso
* valor de verdad
* valor esperado
* valor facial
* valor nominal
* valor normal
* valor preestablecido
* valor propio
* valor relativo
* valor sentimental
* valor venal
* valorar
* valorización
* valorizar

#### Related terms

* avaluar
* devaluar
* evaluar
* valencia
* valentía
* valer
* valiente

#### Descendants

* → Cebuano: balor

### 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