leo

See also: Leo, LEO, Léo, lẹo, le'o, -leo, and Lêô

English

Noun

leo (plural leos)

  1. (informal) Abbreviation of leotard.
    • 2011, Jennifer Kronenberg, So, You Want To Be a Ballet Dancer?
      To this day, I still try to steer clear of wearing a black leo and pink tights together […]
    • 2016, Shawn Johnson, The Flip Side (page 66)
      Now go grab your favorite leotard and makeup bag. I'll run you over there.” […] I rush to apply eye makeup that also matches my leo.

Translations
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Galician

Verb

leo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of ler

Hawaiian

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian [Term?].

Noun

leo

  1. voice

Irish

Alternative forms

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /lʲoː/
  • (Galway) IPA(key): /lʲoːbˠ/ (corresponding to the spelling leob)[1][2]

Pronoun

leo (emphatic leosan)

  1. third-person plural of le: with them, to them

References
  1. Finck, F. N. (1899), Die araner mundart, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, vol. I, p. 196.
  2. Tomás de Bhaldraithe, 1977, Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge: An Deilbhíocht, 2nd edition, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, section 308.

Latin
leō (a lion)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek λέων (léōn)

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈle.oː/, [ˈɫe.oː]
  • Audio (Classical)(file)

Noun

leō m (genitive leōnis); third declension

  1. lion
  2. lion's skin
  3. (astronomy) the constellation Leo
  4. (figuratively) lionheart; a courageous person
  5. a kind of crab
  6. a kind of plant

Inflection

Third declension.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative leō leōnēs
Genitive leōnis leōnum
Dative leōnī leōnibus
Accusative leōnem leōnēs
Ablative leōne leōnibus
Vocative leō leōnēs

Derived terms

Descendants
  • Corsican: lionu
  • Eastern Romance:
  • Italian: leone
  • Ligurian: lión
  • Lombard: leun
  • Navarro-Aragonese: [Term?]
  • Old Leonese: [Term?]
  • Old Occitan: [Term?]
  • Old Portuguese: leon
  • Old Spanish: leon (see there for further descendants)
  • Piedmontese: lion
  • Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Sardinian: leone, leoni, lioni
  • Sicilian: liuni
  • Venetian: leon, lion
  • → Albanian: luan
  • → Basque: lehoi
  • → Brythonic: *lew (see there for further descendants)
  • → Germanic: *laujan
    • Old Frisian: [Term?]
      • North Frisian: lau, lööw
      • Saterland Frisian: leeuwe
      • West Frisian: liuw
    • Old Saxon: [Term?]
    • Old Dutch: lewo
      • Middle Dutch: lêwe
        • Dutch: leeuw
          • Afrikaans: leeu
          • → Sranan Tongo: lew
        • Limburgish: lieëf, liew
        • West Flemish: lêeuw
    • Old High German: lēwo, lēo
      • Middle High German: lewe
        • Alemannic German: Leew, Löi
        • German: Löwe
        • Luxembourgish: Léiw
        • Rhine Franconian:
          Pennsylvania German: Leeb
        • Vilamovian: ływ
        • Yiddish: לייב‎ (leyb)
    • Gothic: *𐌻𐌹𐍅𐌰 (*liwa)
      • → Slavic: *lьvъ (see there for further descendants)
  • → Old English: lēo
  • → Old French: lion (see there for further descendants)
  • → Old Irish: léoman, léo
  • Old Norse: león

See also

References
  • leo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • leo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • leo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
  • leo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • leo in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎
  • leo in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • leo in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Old English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin leō.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /leːo̯/

Noun

lēo f or m

  1. lion
    Eom iċ lēo ġif iċ menn ete?
    Am I a lion if I eat people?
Declension
Declension of leo
Case Singular Plural
nominative lēo lēon
accusative lēon lēon
genitive lēon lēona
dative lēon lēom

Sikaiana

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian [Term?].

Noun

leo

  1. voice, sound of a voice
  2. pronunciation
  3. tune (of a song)

Spanish

Verb

leo

  1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of leer.

Swahili

Adverb

leo

  1. today

Vietnamese

Etymology

From Proto-Vietic *g-lɛːw; cognate with trèo.

Pronunciation

Verb

leo (撩, 繚, 𨇉)

  1. to climb

Derived terms
Derived terms

See also
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