Valentia

See also: valentia, valentía, and Valentia Island

Latin

Etymology

From valentia (“competence, power, vigor”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /u̯aˈlen.ti.a/, [u̯äˈɫ̪ɛn̪t̪iä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /vaˈlen.t͡si.a/, [väˈlɛnt̪͡s̪iä]

Proper noun

Valentia f sg (genitive Valentiae); first declension

1. The name of several settlements in the Roman world, including:
   1. Valencia (the capital city of the modern autonomous community of Valencia, Spain)
   2. Valencia, Valencian Community (an autonomous community of modern Spain)
   3. Valencia (a province of the modern autonomous community of Valencia, Spain)
   4. 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.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Valentia
Genitive	Valentiae
Dative	Valentiae
Accusative	Valentiam
Ablative	Valentiā
Vocative	Valentia
Locative	Valentiae

Descendants

• French: Valence
• Portuguese: Valença
• Spanish: Valencia

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.