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7-letter words (1 found)

LEONINE,

6-letter words (2 found)

OLEINE,ONLINE,

5-letter words (4 found)

ELOIN,LEONE,LINEN,OLEIN,

4-letter words (19 found)

EINE,ENOL,LENO,LIEN,LINE,LINN,LINO,LION,LOIN,LONE,NENE,NEON,NINE,NOEL,NOIL,NOLE,NONE,NONI,ONIE,

3-letter words (17 found)

EEL,EEN,ENE,EON,INN,ION,LEE,LEI,LIE,LIN,NEE,NIE,NIL,NON,OIL,OLE,ONE,

2-letter words (12 found)

EE,EL,EN,IN,IO,LI,LO,NE,NO,OE,OI,ON,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 56 words from leonine according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of leonine

leonine

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈliːənaɪn/, /-nɪn/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈliəˌnaɪn/
  • Hyphenation: le‧on‧ine

Etymology 1

From Late Middle English leonin, leonine (“characteristic of a lion, lionlike”), from Old French leonin, and from its etymon Latin leōnīnus (“of or pertaining to a lion”), from leō (“lion”) (from Ancient Greek λέων (léōn, “lion”); further etymology uncertain) + -īnus (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’).

Adjective

leonine (comparative more leonine, superlative most leonine)

  1. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a lion; lionlike.
    Synonyms: lionesque, lionly
    1. (pathology) Of a facies (“a person's facial features”): resembling those of a lion as a result of some disease, especially a form of leprosy which causes leontiasis (“a medical condition characterized by an overgrowth of the cranial and facial bones”); also, of leprosy: causing a lionlike facies.
Derived terms
  • leoninely
  • leonine share
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Etymology 2

The adjective is derived from Late Middle English leonin, leonine (“of or pertaining to a person named Leo; specifically Pope Leo IV”), from Latin leōnīnus, from Leo (“man’s name”) (from leo (“lion”): see etymology 1) + -īnus (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’).

Sense 2 (“being or relating to a kind of verse with internal rhyme”) is said to refer to a (possibly apocryphal) medieval monk named Leo or Leonius who composed verse with this characteristic; his identity is uncertain, but the composer Léonin (also known as Leo, Leoninus, or Leonius; flourished 1135s–1201) has been suggested. Alternatively, the word may refer to Pope Leo II (c. 611–683): see the c. 1760–1761 quotation.

The noun is derived from the adjective.

Adjective

leonine (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to one of the popes named Leo; specifically (in Leonine City), to Pope Leo IV (790–855) who ordered the building of a wall around Vatican Hill to protect what is now Vatican City.
  3. (poetry) Being or relating to a kind of medieval Latin verse, generally alternative hexameter and pentameter, with rhyming at the middle and end of a line (that is, internal rhyme); also (by extension), of or relating to modern verse having internal rhyme.
Alternative forms
  • Leonine
Derived terms
  • Leonine City
  • Leonine verse
Translations

Noun

leonine (plural leonines)

  1. (poetry) Chiefly in the plural: synonym of Leonine verse (“a kind of medieval Latin verse, generally alternative hexameter and pentameter, with rhyming at the middle and end of a line (that is, internal rhyme)”)
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Etymology 3

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin leōnīna + English -ine (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’). Leōnīna is a feminine singular form of Latin leōnīnus (see etymology 1), and may refer to the use of a lion motif on the coin: see the 1787 quotation.

Noun

leonine (plural leonines)

  1. (numismatics, historical) A 13th-century coin minted in Europe and used in England as a debased form of the sterling silver penny; it was outlawed under Edward I (reigned 1272–1307).
Alternative forms
  • Leonine
  • lionine (obsolete)
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References

Further reading

  • leonine (coin) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Leonine verse on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • leonine (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • Noeline

Italian

Adjective

leonine

  1. feminine plural of leonino

Latin

Adjective

leōnīne

  1. vocative masculine singular of leōnīnus

Source: wiktionary.org