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French
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin leōnīnus, from leō (whence French lion).
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Adjective
léonin (feminine léonine, masculine plural léonins, feminine plural léonines)
- (literary, relational) lion; leonine
- (figuratively) unequal, unjust
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