vaillant

Old present participle of the verb valoir (compare the modern form valant): from Old French vaillant, from Latin valentem.

• IPA^(key): /va.jɑ̃/
• Homophone: vaillants

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• Rhymes: -jɑ̃

vaillant (feminine vaillante, masculine plural vaillants, feminine plural vaillantes)

1. (obsolete) valuable, which has legal tender

   ne pas avoir un sou vaillant ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

2. valiant

   Synonyms: brave, courageux

   à cœur vaillant rien d'impossible ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

3. (Quebec, Acadia) hardworking
4. (Louisiana) nice
5. (Louisiana) healthy

• vaillamment

• valoir

• “vaillant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

• vaillaunt, vailaunt, valiaunt, vaylant (Anglo-Norman)
• vailliant, vailant

From Latin valentem, accusative singular of valēns.

vaillant m (oblique and nominative feminine singular vaillant or vaillante)

1. valuable; having value
2. valiant; brave

vaillant

1. present participle of valoir

opm=vaillanz
ssm=vaillanz

• → English: valiant
• French: vaillant