valiment

Catalan

Etymology

From valer +‎ -ment.

Noun

valiment f (plural valiments)

1. help, aid, assistance
2. favor, beneficence (protection from a powerful person)
   • 1931, Prudenci Bertrana, L'hereu:

     Es mormolava si algun personatge de valiment el protegia de sota mà, en pac d'algun servei valuós i secret, tan comprometedor per a l'un com per a l'altre.

     It was rumoured that some beneficent personage covertly protected him, in return for some valuable and secret service, as compromising for one as for the other.

Derived terms

• desvaliment

Further reading

• “valiment”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024