Ancient Greek

Λίθινος τῆς Δήλου λέων

Noun

λέων • ‎(léōn) m ‎(genitive λέοντος); third declension

1. lion

   πολλοὶ μὲν γὰρ λέουσι τῶν ἀνδρῶν εἴξασι καὶ Κενταύροις καὶ τοιούτοισιν ἑτέροις (Plato, Polit. 291.a.9)

2. One having the characteristics of a lion (positive or negative): savage, noble, brave.

Inflection

Usage notes

Alternative forms of the dative plural include λείουσι (late Epic) and λεόντεσσι.

Derived terms

• λεοντοπέτᾰλον ‎(leontopétalon)

Descendants

• Latin: leō

References

• λέων in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• λέων in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• λέων in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «λέων» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• «λέων» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• λέων in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G3023”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • Leon idem, page 1015.
  • lion idem, page 493.
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press

Greek

Alternative forms

• λέοντας ‎(léontas)
• λιοντάρι ‎(liontári)

Noun

λέων • ‎(léon) m ‎(plural λέοντες)

1. Katharevousa form of λιοντάρι ‎(liontári, “lion, brave man”)