valeureux
French
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editAdjective
editvaleureux (feminine valeureuse, masculine plural valeureux, feminine plural valeureuses)
- valiant; brave
- 1837, Louis Viardot, L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manchefr.Wikisource, translation of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Volume I, Chapter IV:
- [J]e suis le valeureux don Quichotte de la Manche, le défaiseur de torts et le réparateur d’iniquités.
- ... I am the valiant Don Quixote of La Mancha, the undoer of wrongs and the repairer of iniquities.
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- “valeureux”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Old French
editAdjective
editvaleureux m (oblique and nominative feminine singular valeureuse)
Descendants
editReferences
edit- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (valeureus, supplement)
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