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Leontine

Leontine adjective: of, from or relating to Leontini.

Adjective

Leontine

  1. Of, from or relating to Leontini
    • This embassy from Sicily to Athens is of high historical importance on account of the later events which it led to; but it clearly became much more famous on account of the share which the Leontine orator Gorgias was said to have had in it.1892, Edward A. Freeman, The History of Sicily from the Earliest Times, volume 3, Oxford, page 629

Noun

Leontine (plural Leontines)

  1. A native or inhabitant of Leontini

Forms of Leontine

pluralLeontines

Origin of Leontine

Borrowed from Latin Leontīnus, from Ancient Greek Λεοντῖνος (Leontînos).

Questions about Leontine

What does Leontine mean?
Leontine means of, from or relating to Leontini.
What part of speech is Leontine?
Leontine can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near Leontine in the dictionary

  1. Leonore
  2. Leonormania
  3. leontiasis
  4. Leontiefian
  5. Leontievian
  6. Leontine
  7. Leontines
  8. Leontini
  9. leontiniid
  10. leontiniids
  11. Leontiy

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