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Latin
Etymology
From valentia (“competence, power, vigor”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Valentia f sg (genitive Valentiae); first declension
- The name of several settlements in the Roman world, including:
- Valencia (the capital city of the modern autonomous community of Valencia, Spain)
- Valencia, Valencian Community (an autonomous community of modern Spain)
- Valencia (a province of the modern autonomous community of Valencia, Spain)
- Valence (a city and commune, the capital of the modern Drôme department, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, in southeastern France)
Declension
First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.
Descendants
References
- “Valentia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Valentia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.