value
English
/ˈvæljuː/
noun
Definitions
- The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable.
- (uncountable) The degree of importance given to something.
- That which is valued or highly esteemed, such as one's morals, morality, or belief system.
- The amount (of money or goods or services) that is considered to be a fair equivalent for something else.
- (music) The relative duration of a musical note.
- (arts) The relative darkness or lightness of a color in (a specific area of) a painting etc.
- (mathematics) Any definite numerical quantity or other mathematical object, determined by being measured, computed, or otherwise defined.
- Precise meaning; import.
- (in the plural) The valuable ingredients to be obtained by treating a mass or compound; specifically, the precious metals contained in rock, gravel, etc.
- (obsolete) Esteem; regard.
- (obsolete) Valour; also spelled valew.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English valew derived from Old French value derived from Latin valeō, valēre (be worth, be strong) derived from Proto-Indo-European *walh₂- (be strong).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*walh₂-
Gloss
be strong
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- L English
- countervalue English
- devalue English
- devaluer English
- disvalue English
- downvalue English
- eigenvalue English
- equivalue English
- invaluable English
- isovalue English
- lvalue English
- misvalue English
- multivalue English
- nonvaluable English
- nonvalue English
- outvalue English
- overvalue English
- pseudovalue English
- revaluable English
- revaluate English
- revalue English
- revaluer English
- semivalue English
- subvalue English
- undervalue English
- undervaluer English
- unvaluable English
- unvalue English
- up English
- upvalue English
- valuable English
- valuableness English
- valuably English
- valuate English
- valuator English
- value-free English
- valueable English
- valueless English
- valuelessly English
- valuelessness English
- valueness English
- valuer English
- valuest English
- valueth English
- valeō, valēre Latin
- dévaluer French
- valer Spanish, Castilian
- *walh₂- Proto-Indo-European
- revaluere Norwegian Bokmål
- revaluere Norwegian Nynorsk
- valew Middle English
- valeir Old French
- value Old French
- valer Old Spanish
- वेलू Rajasthani
- L
- up
- valuer
- lvalue
- valuest
- revalue
- upvalue
- devalue
- valueth
- valuate
- unvalue
- devaluer
- outvalue
- disvalue
- valuably
- valuable
- misvalue
- revaluer
- subvalue
- isovalue
- valuator
- nonvalue
- revaluate
- overvalue
- valueable
- semivalue
- valueless
- valueness
- downvalue
- equivalue
- eigenvalue
- value-free
- undervalue
- multivalue
- invaluable
- revaluable
- unvaluable
- pseudovalue
- undervaluer
- nonvaluable
- valuelessly
- valuableness
- countervalue
- valuelessness