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Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek λέαινα (léaina).
Pronunciation
Noun
leaena f (genitive leaenae); first declension
- lioness
- Synonym: lea
405 CE,
Jerome,
Vulgate Proverbs.26.13:
- Dīcit piger: Leaena in viā, leō in itineribus.
1592 CE, Sixto-Clementine Vulgate,
Proverbs 26.13:
- Dīcit piger: Leō est in viā, et leaena in itineribus.
- 1752 translation by Douay-Rheims, Challoner rev.
- The slothful man saith: There is a lion in the way, and a lioness in the roads.
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “leaena”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “leaena”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- leaena in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “leaena”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia
- “leaena”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “leaena”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray