valeureux

French

Etymology

valeur + -eux

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /va.lø.ʁø/
  • Rhymes:

Adjective

valeureux (feminine singular valeureuse, masculine plural valeureux, feminine plural valeureuses)

  1. 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.
      (please add an English translation of this quote)
      ... I am the valiant Don Quixote of La Mancha, the undoer of wrongs and the repairer of iniquities.

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Old French

Adjective

valeureux m (oblique and nominative feminine singular valeureuse)

  1. valiant; brave
  2. valuable; having significant value

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