vaillant

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

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

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• Rhymes: -jɑ̃

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

1. valiant
2. (Quebec, Acadian) hard-working
3. (Louisiana) nice
4. (Louisiana) healthy

• valoir

• “vaillant” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• 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

• → English: valiant
• French: vaillant