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valor (usually uncountable, plural valors)

  1. (American spelling) Alternative form of valour

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

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)

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

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

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

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)

valor (plural valores)

  1. value (quantity, level)

From Late Latin valor, valōrem, from Latin valeō.

valor m (plural valores)

  1. value

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

valor m (genitive valōris); third declension

  1. (Late Latin) value, worth

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative valor valōrēs
Genitive valōris valōrum
Dative valōrī valōribus
Accusative valōrem valōrēs
Ablative valōre valōribus
Vocative valor valōrēs
  • “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.

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

  1. Alternative form of valur

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

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

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)

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

  • IPA(key): /baˈloɾ/ [baˈloɾ]
  • Rhymes: -oɾ
  • Syllabification: va‧lor

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