value

value
(va-lue) s. f.
Il ne s'emploie, d'après l'Académie, que dans cette locution : plus-value (voy. ce mot).
   Cependant il a été employé par quelques écrivains au sens de valeur, prix.
   Si sais-je bien qu'Amour en son clapier Onc n'eut lapin de si mince value, J. B. ROUSS. Épigr. I, 26.
   XIIIe s.
   Je suis tenus à rendre le [la] value que le [la] coze valoit el tans que ele me fust prestée, BEAUMANOIR XXXIV, 15.
   XVe s.
   Certes, dist le duc d'Anjou, celluy à qui vous l'avez donnée [une charge] est de petite value et n'est souffisant d'estre en tel office, CHRIST. DE PISAN Charles V, III, 19.
   Valu.

Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d'Émile Littré. . 1872-1877.

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