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French
Etymology
From valeur + -eux.
Pronunciation
Adjective
valeureux (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
Further reading
Old French
Adjective
valeureux m (oblique and nominative feminine singular valeureuse)
- valiant; brave
- valuable; having significant value
Descendants
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (valeureus, supplement)