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)
- 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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Anagrams
- valiance
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin valentia, from Latin valens.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /baˈlenθja/ [baˈlẽn̟.θja]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /baˈlensja/ [baˈlẽn.sja]
- (Spain) Rhymes: -enθja
- (Latin America) Rhymes: -ensja
- Syllabification: va‧len‧cia
Noun
valencia f (plural valencias)
- valency, valence
Related terms
- valiente
Further reading
- “valencia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014