valiant

• valiaunt (obsolete)

Anglo-Norman vaylant, from Old French vaillant (“stalwart, brave”), present participle adjective of valor (see valoir), from Latin valere (“to be strong, be of worth”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈvæljənt/

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valiant (comparative more valiant, superlative most valiant)

1. Showing courage or determination; brave, heroic.

• orped (dialect or archaic)
• valorous

valiant (plural valiants)

1. (obsolete) A person who acts with valor, showing hero-like characteristics in the midst of danger.
   • c. 1599, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Ivlivs Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies, London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, Act II, scene ii, page 117, column 1:

     Cowards dye many times before their deaths, / The valiant neuer taſte of death but once: […]

• Latvian, Talivan