vaillance

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French vaillance, from vaillant +‎ -ance, or possibly from Late Latin valentia, from Latin valēns.

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɑ̃s

Noun

vaillance f (plural vaillances)

1. (usually in the singular) valiance, courage, bravery

Further reading

• “vaillance”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Old French

Alternative forms

• vaillaunce (Anglo-Norman)
• vaillancie (Anglo-Norman)
• vaillauncie (Anglo-Norman)
• valiauns (Anglo-Norman)
• valaunce (Anglo-Norman)

Etymology

From vaillant +‎ -ance, or possibly from Late Latin valentia, from Latin valens.

Noun

vaillance oblique singular, f (oblique plural vaillances, nominative singular vaillance, nominative plural vaillances)

1. value; worth
   • 1260–1267, Brunetto Latini, “Cist premiers livres parole de la naissance de toutes choses [This first book talks about the birth of all things]” (chapter 1), Livre I - Premiere partie, in Livres dou Tresor [Book of Treasures]; republished as Polycarpe Chabaille, compiler, Li livres dou tresor par Brunetto Latini‎^[1], Paris: Imprimerie impériale, 1863, page 1:

     si come li sires qui vuet en petit leu amasser choses de grandisme vaillance […] por acroistre son pooir […] i met il les plus chieres choses et les plus precieux joiaus que il puet, selonc sa bone entencion, tout autressi est li cors de cest livre compilez de sapience

     Just like the lord, who wants to accumulate very valuable things in a tiny place […] in order to increase his power, […] puts there—according to his good intention—the dearest things and the most precious jewels he can, so the body of this book is filled with knowledge

     (literally, “Just like the lord, who wants in small place to amass things of very great value […] ”)

2. valiance; chivalry; bravery

Descendants

• → English: valiance
• French: vaillance