leon

From Latin leo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlewn/

leon m (plural leoned)

1. lion

Latin leo

leon (plural leones)

1. lion
2. Leo

• (Munster, Ulster) IPA^(key): /lʲoːn̪ˠ/
• (Connacht) IPA^(key): /l̠ʲuːnˠ/

From Old Irish léoman, léo, from Latin leō.

• leomhan

leon m (genitive singular leoin, nominative plural leoin)

1. lion

• An Leon (“Leo”)

From Old Irish leónaid, a late form of lénaid (“impairs, injures, wounds”), from lén (“defeat, hurt, injury, misfortune, sorrow”).

leon (present analytic leonann, future analytic leonfaidh, verbal noun leonadh, past participle leonta)

1. (transitive) sprain
2. (transitive) injure, wound

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “leon”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “lénaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “léo”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 84

From Latin leō, leōnis.

• (Western) IPA^(key): /leˈun/
  • (Ticinese) IPA^(key): /liˈom/
• (Eastern) IPA^(key): /leˈu/, /liˈu/

leon (plural leon)

1. lion

leon

1. alternative form of lyoun

From Latin leō, leōnis.

• IPA^(key): /leˈu/

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leon m (plural leons)

1. lion

From Proto-Germanic *līhwaną. Cognate with Old High German lihan (German leihen).

• IPA^(key): /le͜oːn/

lēon

1. to lend, loan

leon oblique singular, m (oblique plural leons, nominative singular leons, nominative plural leon)

1. alternative form of lion
   • c. 1170, Christian of Troyes, Yvain ou le Chevalier au lion:

     Et li leons, qui che esgarde,
     De li aidier plus ne se tarde[.]

     And the lion who was watching
     Did not wait any longer to help him.

From Latin leōnem, singular accusative of leō, from Ancient Greek λέων (léōn).

• IPA^(key): /leˈon/

leon m (plural leones, feminine singular leona, feminine plural leonas)

1. lion
   • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, 25r:

     […] cõ leõ ſe leuantara e con leona ſe alcara nos echara faſta q̃ coma. rabadura e ſangre de matados breura.

     “ […] Like a lion it shall rise up and like a lioness it shall lift itself up. It shall not lie down until it eats prey, and the blood of those slain it shall drink.”

   • c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 6v:

     Et por ende a tal p̃priedat eſta piedra q̃ el q̃ la trae obedecẽ le los leones aſſi q̃ los puede tomar a manos ⁊ nol fará mal por q̃ el leó q̃ndo la uee pierde toda la fuerça ⁊ nõ a en ſi poder.

     And such is the property of this stone that lions will obey he who bears it, so that he can touch them with his hands and they will not harm him, for when he sees it the lion loses all its strength and has in him no power.

• Leon

• Spanish: león
  • → Bikol Central: leon, leyon
  • → Guaraní: leõ
  • → Kapampangan: leon
  • → Papiamentu: leon
  • → Quechua: liyun

• leiōn, leyan

From Old Norse león, from Latin leō, (genitive: leōnis), from Ancient Greek λέων (léōn), likely a borrowing from a Semitic language. Compare Proto-Semitic *labiʾ-.

leon m

1. lion

• Swedish: lejon

From Spanish león and Kabuverdianu lion.

leon

1. lion

• IPA^(key): /leˈuŋ/

leon m

1. lion

   Synonym: lion

• liyon
• leyon

Borrowed from Spanish león, from Latin leōnem, from Ancient Greek λέων (léōn), of Semitic origin. Doublet of Leo.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /leˈon/ [lɛˈon̪]
• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: le‧on

león (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜒᜌᜓᜈ᜔)

1. lion

   Synonym: (archaic) halimaw

• “leon”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

From Latin leō, leōnem (compare Italian leone).

• IPA^(key): /leˈoŋ/

leon m (plural leoni or leuni)

1. lion

• IPA^(key): [le.ˈon]

leon (nominative plural leons)

1. lion

• hileon (“lion (male)”)
• jileon (“lioness, lion (female)”)
• leonil (“small lion”)
• leonül (“lion cub”)

• leonik (“leonine”)
• sileon (“Leo (constellation)”)