1. lĕo — Lewis & Short
lĕo, lēre, v. a. The root of deleo; cf. Prisc. l. 9
I fin.
The corpus record — Latin
leo
leo · v. a
fin
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Where it lives
- Precationes 1 · 21.6/10k
- Fescinnina de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1 · 18.25/10k
- Dittochaeon 2 · 16.34/10k
- Dirae, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 15.41/10k
- Diadumenus Antoninus 2 · 11.98/10k
- Commodus Antoninus 4 · 11.54/10k
- de raptu Proserpinae 8 · 11.47/10k
- In Eutropium 8 · 11.14/10k
- Eclogarum Liber 3 · 10.96/10k
- de consulatu Stilichonis 8 · 10.55/10k
- Oedipus 6 · 10.11/10k
- Epodon 3 · 9.98/10k
Densest 12 of 131 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
2. lĕo — Lewis & Short
lĕo, ōnis, m.Gr. le/wn, li/s,
I a lion.
I Lit.:
validus,Lucr. 5, 985:
fulvus,Ov. H. 10, 85:
ferus,id. M. 7, 373:
magnanimus,id. Tr. 3, 5, 33:
leoni praecipua generositas,Plin. 8, 16, 17, § 42:
Gaetulus,Verg. A. 5, 351:
Poenus,id. E. 5, 27:
Phrygius,id. A. 10, 157:
fulvus,id. ib. 4, 159:
leonum animi index cauda,Plin. 8, 16, 17, § 42:
leo alumnus,Juv. 14, 247:
pardus, tigris, leo— si quid adhuc est quod fremat in terris violentius,id. 8, 36: leo femina, a she-lion, lioness (for leaena), Plaut. Fragm. ap. Philarg. Verg. E. 2, 63.—Without femina:
orbati leones,Stat. S. 2, 1, 9; Val. Fl. 6, 317.—
II Transf.
A A lion's skin, Val. Fl. 8, 126.—
B The constellation Leo:
momenta Leonis,Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 16:
cum sol in Leone est,Plin. 24, 17, 102, § 162:
in pectore Leonis,id. 18, 26, 64, § 235.—
C A kind of crab, Plin. 9, 31, 51, § 97.—
D A plant, perhaps lion's-foot, Col. 10, 260; 98.—
E To denote a courageous person:
in pace leones, in proelio cervi,Tert. Coron. Mil. 1 med.; cf.:
in praetoriis leones, in castris lepores,Sid. Ep. 5, 7 med.:
domi leones, foris vulpes,Petr. 44, 4.
3. Lĕo — Lewis & Short
Lĕo, ōnis, m.; only Lĕōnes, um,
plur.:I the priests of the Persian god Mithras:
Leones Mithrae,Tert. adv. Marc. 1, 13.
In the wild
- Leonis Tertullian, De ieiunio adversus psychicos 16
- leones Vergil, Eclogues 5
- leonum Statius, Thebais 9.589
- leonem Horace, Carmina 3.2
- leo Martial, Epigrammata 9.71.1
- Leonis Ausonius, Epitaphia heroum qui bello Troico interfuerunt 28.5
6 of 616 attestations shown.
Where it came from
- Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. leo (scan p. 815; entry #16622).
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