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λεόντεος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: λεόντεος λεόντεα λεόντεον

Structure: λεοντε (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. of a lion

Examples

  • ἀπὸ δὲ τοῦ κωλέα συνῃρημένον ἐστὶν ὡσ συκέα συκῆ, λεοντέα λεοντῆ, κωλέα κωλῆ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 66)
  • καὶ αὐτὸσ δ’ Ἐπίκουροσ τρόπον τινὰ Λαμψακηνὸσ ὑπῆρξε, διατρίψασ ἐν Λαμψάκῳ καὶ φίλοισ χρησάμενοσ τοῖσ ἀρίστοισ τῶν ἐν τῇ πόλει ταύτῃ, τοῖσ περὶ Ἰδομενέα καὶ Λεοντέα. (Strabo, Geography, Book 13, chapter 1 30:14)

Synonyms

  1. of a lion

Similar forms

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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