Leonine

Definition: Leonine

Leonine

Adjective

1. Of or characteristic of or resembling a lion.

Date "leonine" was first used: sometime around 1375. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Satire	LEONINE, adj. Unlike a menagerie lion. Leonine verses are those in which a word in the middle of a line rhymes with a word at the end, as in this famous passage from Bella Peeler Silcox: The electric light invades the dunnest deep of Hades. Cries Pluto, 'twixt his snores: "O tempora! O mores!" It should be explained that Mrs. Silcox does not undertake to teach pronunciation of the Greek and Latin tongues. Leonine verses are so called in honor of a poet named Leo, whom prosodists appear to find a pleasure in believing to have been the first to discover that a rhyming couplet could be run into a single line. Source: Devil's Dictionary.
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Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Poetry	Doggerel, Hudibrastic verse, prose run mad; macaronics; macaronic verse, leonine verse; runes.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Leonine

English words defined with "leonine": Leonine verse. (references)

Specialty definitions using "leonine": leonine, leonine convention, Leonine Verses. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	The Leonine sacramentary : a reassessment of its nature and purpose (reference) The Leonine Union of the Order of Friars Minor, 1897 (reference) (more book examples)
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"Leonine" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 92.31% of the time. "Leonine" is used about 13 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	92.31%	12	101,599
Noun (proper)	7.69%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	13	N/A

Expressions using "leonine": leonine convention ♦ leonine verse. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "leonine"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		luanor, prej luani, i luanit. (various references)

Arabic		‏أسدى. (various references)

Bulgarian		лъвски (lion's), леонийски. (various references)

Czech		majestátní (imperial, majestic, queenly, royal, stately). (various references)

Danish		kontrakt der giver den staerkeste flest fordele (leonine convention). (various references)

Dutch		leonische clausule (leonine convention), leonisch contract (leonine convention), leeuwebeding (leonine convention). (various references)

Finnish		yksipuolisuudessaan kohtuuton sopimusehto (leonine convention), clausula leonina (leonine convention). (various references)

French		léonin, de lion. (various references)

German		löwenartig, löwen-. (various references)

Greek		λιονταρίσιοσ. (various references)

Hungarian		oroszlán-. (various references)

Italian		leonino (lions), di leone. (various references)

Manx		lionagh. (various references)

Pig Latin		eoninelay

Portuguese		leonino, leão (Leo, lion, Lion/the), majestoso (August, grandiosely, imposition, kingly, lofty, maestro, majestic, olympian, queenly, royal, solemn, stately). (various references)

Romanian		leonin, puternic (acute, ardent, authoritative, biting, catchy, drastic, exquisite, fierce, flush, forceful, forcible, forcibly, great, hard, heavily, heavy, high, important, intense, intensely, intensive, loud, lusty, marrowy, mighty, muscular, nervous, nervy, pithy, potent, powerful, pronounced, resistant, robust, rough, rude, searching, severe, sinewy, solid, stark, stout, strapping, strong, tough, towering, vigorous, violent, virulent), de leu. (various references)

Russian		львиный, леонинский. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		lavovski. (various references)

Spanish		leonino. (various references)

Swedish		lejonartad. (various references)

Turkish		aslana özgü, aslan gibi. (various references)

Ukranian		левовий. (various references)

Welsh		llewaidd (lionlike). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	leoninus. (various references)
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Misspellings
	"Leonine" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Alfonsine, ketomine, leanline, lenine, Lentinue, Leolin, Leonide, leonina, leontine, leontinoi, levonian, Linnane, lionine, londini, longine, Lonnin, Ludovina. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "leonine" (pronounced 'Le"o*nine'): Alanine, Apennine, Asinine, Cinchonine, Conchinine, Conine, Cotarnine, Cyanine, Delphinine, Eburnine, Ecgonine, Echidnine, Falconine, Fescennine, Festennine, Iodoquinine, Laburnine, Laudanine, Longipennine, Nicotianine, opianine, Oscinine, paeonine, Paraconine, Pavonine, Quinine, Ranine, Ricinine, Safranine, saturnine, Solanine, Struthionine, strychnine, Subapennine, Vernine, Vespertilionine, Xanthinine. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-i-l-n-n-o"
	-1 letter: oleine, online.
	-2 letters: eloin, leone, linen, olein.
	-3 letters: enol, leno, lien, line, linn, lino, lion, loin, lone, nene, neon, nine, noel, noil, none.
	-4 letters: eel, eon, inn, ion, lee, lei, lie, lin, nee, nil, oil, ole, one.
	-5 letters: el, en, in, li, lo, ne, no, oe, on.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-i-l-n-n-o"
	+1 letter: limonene, nonelite.
	+2 letters: indolence, innersole, insolence, limonenes, nonbelief, nonedible.
	+3 letters: anopheline, declension, echeloning, enveloping, indolences, ineloquent, innersoles, insolences, loneliness, nonbeliefs, tenderloin.
	+4 letters: anophelines, condensible, connectible, conventicle, crenelation, declensions, delineation, emboldening, ensorceling, enucleation, exponential, extensional, geosyncline, ignobleness, intolerance, involvement, legionnaire, looninesses, mentionable, needlepoint, nickelodeon, nonbeliever, nondelivery, nonelection, nonelective, nonelectric, nonliterate, nonrelative, nonviolence, overlending, pensionable, pensionless, plenipotent, reenrolling, stenohaline, telephoning, tenderloins, tensionless.
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