Lĕon — Lewis & Short
Lĕon, ontis, m., = *le/wn.
I The name of a town near Syracuse, now Magnisi; acc. Leonta, Liv. 24, 39, 13.—
II A ruler of Phlius, Cic. Tusc. 5, 3, 8.—
III A celebrated painter, Plin. 35, 11, 40, § 141.
The corpus record — Latin
Leon
Leon · m
The name of a town near Syracuse
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Where it lives
- Commemoratio professorum Burdigalensium 2 · 7.61/10k
- Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 35 1 · 0.79/10k
- Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k
- Tusculanae Disputationes 2 · 0.35/10k
- In C. Verrem 1 · 0.1/10k
- Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k
- Ab urbe condita 1 · 0.02/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- Leonte Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 5.8
- Leonti Ausonius, Commemoratio professorum Burdigalensium 7.16
- Leonti Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 22.4.194
- Leontem Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 3.3.15
- Leonte Livy, Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 35 p42
- Leonte Livy, Ab urbe condita 3.35.50.4
6 of 9 attestations shown.
Where it came from
- Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. leon (scan p. 815; entry #16623).
- Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. leon (scan p. 1914; entry #4582).
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