Valentia

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [waˈɫɛn.ti.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [vaˈlɛn.t̪͡s̪i.a]

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 autonomous community of Valencia, Spain)
   2. Valencia, Valencian Community (an autonomous community of Spain; in full, Valencian Community)
   3. Valencia (a province of the 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)

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

• Catalan: València
  • → Basque: Valentzia
  • → Chinese: 瓦倫西亞 / 瓦伦西亚 (Wǎlúnxīyà)
  • → Dutch: Valencia
  • → English: Valencia
  • → Galician: Valencia
  • → German: Valencia, Valentz
  • → Italian: Valencia
  • → Portuguese: Valência
  • → Spanish: Valencia, Val. (abbreviation)
    • → Cebuano: Valencia
    • Chinese:
      • → Mandarin: 巴倫西亞 / 巴伦西亚 (Bālúnxīyà) (transliteration)
    • → Tagalog: Valencia
  • → Turkish: Valensiya
• Corsican: Valenza
• French: Valence
• Italian: Valenza
• Portuguese: Valença

• “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.