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Irish
Etymology
From Middle Irish lipard, borrowed from Middle English lipard, from Old French leopard (“leopard”), from Late Latin leopardus (“leopon, lipard”) from late Ancient Greek λεόπαρδος (leópardos, “leopon, lipard”), from λέων (léōn, “lion”) + πάρδος (párdos, “pard, male leopard”).
Pronunciation
Noun
liopard m (genitive singular liopaird, nominative plural liopaird)
- leopard (Panthera pardus)
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References
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “liopard”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “lipard”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language