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.

• leam, leõ, leom, liam, liõ, liom, lleam, lleom, lyã, lyam, lyom, lyon

Inherited from Latin leō, borrowed from Ancient Greek λέων (léōn). Cognate with Old French lion and Old Spanish leon.

• Homophone: Leon

leon m (plural leões, feminine leõa, feminine plural *leõas)

1. lion
   • 1373 January 20, Fernán Martís, “Cõmo outs çem naues tomarõ porto [How other one hundred ships took the port]” (chapter 116), in Cronica Troiana [Trojan Chronicle], Kingdom of Galicia, translation of Roman de Troie by Benoît de Sainte-Maure, pages 39v–40r:

     ⁊ el rreŷ ptenoꝛ outºſſŷ q̃ era moŷ bon caualro ⁊ brauo / ⁊ ardido cõmo hũ leõ.

     And King Prothoenor, as well, who was a very good horseman and brave and bold as a lion.

• Fala: león
• Galician: león
• Portuguese: leão
  • Kabuverdianu: lion
  • Macanese: leám
  • Papiamentu: leon
  • → Tetum: leaun

• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “leon”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “leon”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Ferreiro, Manuel (2014–2025), “leon”, in Universo Cantigas: edición crítica da poesía medieval galego-portuguesa [Universo Cantigas: critical edition of Galician-Portuguese medieval poetry] (in Galician), A Coruña: University of A Coruña, →ISSN
• Cunha, Antônio Geraldo da (2020–2025), “leão”, in Vocabulário histórico-cronológico do Português Medieval [Historical and chronological vocabullary of Medieval Portuguese] (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa

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 farã mal por q̃ el leõ 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
  • → Tagalog: leon

• 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)”)