valencia

See also: Valencia, valencià, valência, València, and Valência

English

Alternative forms

• valentia

Etymology

Perhaps from Valence in France.

Noun

valencia (countable and uncountable, plural valencias)

1. A kind of woven fabric for waistcoats, having the weft of wool and the warp of silk or cotton.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “valencia”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• valiance

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin valentia, from Latin valēns.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baˈlenθja/ [baˈlẽn̟.θja] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
• IPA^(key): /baˈlensja/ [baˈlẽn.sja] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -enθja (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
• Rhymes: -ensja (Latin America, Philippines)
• Syllabification: va‧len‧cia

Noun

valencia f (plural valencias)

1. valency, valence

Related terms

• valiente

Further reading

• “valencia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025