1. lĕōnīnus — Lewis & Short
lĕōnīnus, a, um, adj.2. leo,
I of or belonging to a lion, a lion's.
I Lit.:
concede audacter ab leonino cavo,Plaut. Men. 1, 2, 47:
species,a lion-like appearance, Varr. R. R. 2, 9, 3:
pellis,Plin. 37, 10, 54, § 142:
jubae,id. ib.:
adeps,id. 24, 17, 102, § 165.—*
II Trop.: leonina societas, a lion's partnership, i. e. in which one party gets all the profit and the other all the loss:
Aristo refert: Cassium respondisse, societatem talem coiri non posse, ut alter lucrum tantum, alter damnum sentiret, et hanc societatem leoninam solitum appellare,Dig. 17, 2, 29, § 2.