Leontini

From Ancient Greek Λεοντῖνοι (Leontînoi).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɫe.ɔnˈtiː.niː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [le.on̪ˈt̪iː.ni]

Leontīnī m pl (genitive Leontīnōrum); second declension

1. a city in Sicily situated between Catana and Syracusae, birthplace of Gorgias, now Lentini

Second-declension noun, with locative, plural only.

• Leontīnus

• Old Sicilian: Liuntini
  • Sicilian: Lintini
    • Italian: Lentini

• “Leontini”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• Leontini in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.