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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

  • πρὸσ δὲ Θεμίσταν τὴν Λεοντέωσ γυναῖκα Οἱο͂́σ τε φησίν εἰμί, ἐὰν μὴ ὑμεῖσ πρόσ με ἀφίκησθε, αὐτὸσ τρικύλιστοσ, ὅπου ἂν ὑμεῖσ καὶ Θεμίστα παρακαλῆτε, ὠθεῖσθαι. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, I, EPIKOUROS 5:3)
  • ὅ τε Λεοντέωσ υἱὸσ καὶ Θεμίστασ· (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, I, EPIKOUROS 26:5)
  • Ἄλκηστιν μὲν γὰρ τὴν πρεσβυτάτην ἐκδοῦναι πρὸσ γάμον Ἀδμήτῳ τῷ Φέρητοσ Θετταλῷ, Ἀμφινόμην δὲ Ἀνδραίμονι Λεοντέωσ ἀδελφῷ, Εὐάδνην δὲ Κάνῃ τῷ Κεφάλου, Φωκέων τότε βασιλεύοντι. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 4, chapter 53 2:2)

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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