value

Significado

Noun

1. The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable.
2. The degree of importance given to something.
3. That which is valued or highly esteemed, such as one's morals, morality, or belief system.
4. The amount (of money or goods or services) that is considered to be a fair equivalent for something else.
5. The relative duration of a musical note.
6. The relative darkness or lightness of a color in (a specific area of) a painting etc.
7. Any definite numerical quantity or other mathematical object, determined by being measured, computed, or otherwise defined.
8. Precise meaning; import.
9. The valuable ingredients to be obtained by treating a mass or compound; specifically, the precious metals contained in rock, gravel, etc.
10. (obsolete) Esteem; regard.
11. (obsolete) Valour.

Verb

1. To estimate the value of; judge the worth of something.
2. To fix or determine the value of; assign a value to, as of jewelry or art work.
3. To regard highly; think much of; place importance upon.
4. To hold dear.

Con guión como

val‧ue

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈvæl.juː/

Etimología

From Middle English valew, value, from Old French value, feminine past participle of valoir, from Latin valēre (“be strong, be worth”), from Proto-Italic *walēō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂welh₁- (“to be strong”).