leonine
See also: léonine
English
Alternative forms
- lionine (obsolete)
Adjective
leonine (comparative more leonine, superlative most leonine)
- Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the lion.
- His leonine face scared the young children.
- 1887, Thomas Adolphus Trollope, What I Remember, Volume 2, chapter XIV (ebook):
- He [Landor] was a man of somewhat leonine aspect as regards the general appearance and expression of the head and face, which accorded well with the large and massive build of the figure, and to which a superbly curling white beard added not only picturesqueness, but a certain nobility.
Translations
of or like a lion
Noun
leonine (plural leonines)
Etymology 2
Perhaps from Leoninus, a 12th-century canon in Paris, or from Pope Leo II.
Italian
Latin
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