leo

See also: Leo, LEO, Léo, lẹo, -leo, Lêô, leʻo, and le-o

Translingual

Symbol

leo

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Mengisa.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Mengisa terms

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈliːəʊ/

Noun

leo (plural leos)

1. (informal) Clipping of leotard.
   • 2011, Jennifer Kronenberg, So, You Want To Be a Ballet Dancer?:

     To this day, I still try to steer clear of wearing a black leo and pink tights together […]

   • 2016, Shawn Johnson, The Flip Side, page 66:

     Now go grab your favorite leotard and makeup bag. I'll run you over there.” […] I rush to apply eye makeup that also matches my leo.

2. (chess) A fairy chess piece which moves analogously to the xiangqi cannon and queen, moving either orthogonally or diagonally and must hop over a piece of either side to capture.

Translations

Translations

• French: justau m

Anagrams

• Loe, loe, ole, EOL, -ole, 'Ole, OEL, LoE, elo, olé, OLE, Elo

Galician

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /leʊ/

Verb

leo

1. first-person singular present indicative of ler
2. first-person singular present indicative of lear

Hawaiian

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *leo, from Proto-Oceanic *leqo, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *liqə, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *liqəʀ, from Proto-Austronesian *liqəʀ (“neck”). Compare also Tetum lian.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈle.o/, [ˈlɛ.jo]

Noun

leo

1. voice; sound
2. command

   I aliʻi nō ʻoe, i kanaka au, malalo aku au o kō leo. (Hula song)

   You be the chief, I the servant, I shall be obedient to your command.

3. verbal message

Verb

leo

1. to speak
2. to make a sound

Derived terms

• leoleo

References

• Pukui, Mary Kawena; Elbert, Samuel H. (1986), “leo”, in Hawaiian Dictionary, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, →ISBN

Helong

Etymology

From Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *liqə, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *liqəʀ, from Proto-Austronesian *liqəʀ.

Noun

leo

1. neck

Irish

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

• leob (Galway)
• leofa (Ulster)
• riú (Munster)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lʲoː/
• (Galway) IPA^(key): /lʲoːbˠ/ (corresponding to the form leob)
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈlʲɔːfˠə/ (corresponding to the form leofa)

Pronoun

leo (emphatic leosan)

1. third-person plural of le: with them, to them

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /lʲoː/
• (Connacht) IPA^(key): /l̠ʲoː/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /l̠ʲɔː/

Noun

leo m (genitive singular leo, nominative plural leonna)

1. slush, slime, slick

Declension

Declension of leo (fourth declension)

bare forms singular plural nominative leo leonna vocative a leo a leonna genitive leo leonna dative leo leonna forms with the definite article singular plural nominative an leo na leonna genitive an leo na leonna dative leis an leo don leo leis na leonna

Derived terms

• leo ola (“oil slick”)

Latin

leō (a lion)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek λέων (léōn).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɫe.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈlɛː.o]

Noun

leō m (genitive leōnis); third declension

1. lion
2. lion's skin
3. (astronomy) the constellation Leo
4. (figuratively) lionheart; a courageous person
5. a kind of crab
6. a kind of plant

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	leō	leōnēs
genitive	leōnis	leōnum
dative	leōnī	leōnibus
accusative	leōnem	leōnēs
ablative	leōne	leōnibus
vocative	leō	leōnēs

Derived terms

• leō fēmina
• leōnīnus
• leunculus

Related terms

• lea
• leaena
• leonticus
• leontios

Descendants

• Eastern Romance:
  • Italo-Dalmatian:
    • Corsican: lionu
    • Italian: leone
    • Sicilian: liuni
      • → Maltese: ljun
  • Romanian: leu
  • Venetan: leon, lion
• Western Romance:
  • Gallo-italic:
    • Emilian: leån
    • Ligurian: lión
    • Lombard: leon
    • Piedmontese: lion, leon
  • Old French: lion (see there for further descendants)
  • Rhaeto-Romance:
    • Friulian: lion
    • Romansh: liun
  • Old Navarro-Aragonese:
    • Aragonese: lión
  • Old Leonese:
    • Asturian: llión, lleón
    • Leonese: llión
  • Old Occitan:
    • Catalan: lleó
    • Occitan: leon
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: leon
    • Fala: león
    • Galician: león
    • Portuguese: leão
      • Kabuverdianu: lion
      • Macanese: leám
      • Papiamentu: leon
      • → Tetum: leaun
  • Old Spanish: leon (see there for further descendants)
• Southern Romance:
  • Sardinian: leone, leoni, lioni
• → Albanian: luan
• → Basque: lehoi
• → Proto-Brythonic: *llew (see there for further descendants)
• → Proto-West Germanic: *lēwō (see there for further descendants)
• → Gothic: 𐌻𐌰𐌹𐍅𐌰 (laiwa)
  • →? Proto-Slavic: *lь̀vъ (see there for further descendants)
• → Old English: lēo
• → Old Irish: léoman, léo
  • Irish: leon
  • Scottish Gaelic: leòmhann
• → Old Norse: león, leó (see there for further descendants)
• Translingual: †Microleo, †Priscileo, †Thylacoleo, †Wakaleo, Panthera leo

See also

• Leo on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^la

References

• “leo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “leo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "leo", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “leo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “leo”, in The Perseus Project (1999), Perseus Encyclopedia‎^[1]
• “leo”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “leo”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Niuean

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *leo.

Noun

leo

1. voice, sound

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *lēwō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /le͜oː/
• Rhymes: -e͜oː

Noun

lēo f or m

1. a lion
   • late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans

     Wearð þæt unġemetlīċe myċle ġefeoht betwuh Crētense, ⁊ Atheniense, þǣm folcum. ⁊ þā Crētense hæfdon ðone grimlēċan siġe, ⁊ ealle þā æþelestan bearn þāra Athēniensa hȳ ġenomon, ⁊ sealdon þǣm Mīnōtaurō tō etanne, þæt wæs healf mon healf lēo.

     There was an immensely great war between the Cretans and the Athenians. And the Cretans won a grim victory, and they took all the most noble of the Athenian children and gave them to the Minotaur, who was half man and half lion, for him to eat.

   • c. 994, Ælfric, On the Year

     Ǣlċe mōnað hēo yrnð under ān þǣra tacna. Ān þǣra tacna ys ġehāten aries, þæt is ramm; oðer taurus, þæt is fearr; ðridda gemini, þæt synd ġetwisan; fēorða cancer, þæt is crabba; fīfta leo; syxta virgo, þæt is mǣden; seofoða libra, þæt is pund orde wǣġe; eahtoðe scorpius, þæt is þrōwend; nigoða is sagittarius, þæt is sċytta; teoða ys capricornus, þæt is buccan horn, oððe bucca; endlyfta is aquarius, þæt is wæter-ġyte, oððe þe þe wæter ġyt; twelfte is pisces, þæt synd fixas.

     Each month runs under one of the signs [of the Zodiac]. The first of the signs is called aries, that is "ram"; the second is taurus, that is "bull"; the third is gemini, that is "twins"; the fourth is cancer, that is "crab"; the fifth is lion; the sixth is virgo, that is "virgin"; the seventh is libra, that is "pound" or "scales"; eighth is scorpious, that is "scorpion"; ninth is sagittarius, that is "shooter"; tenth is capricornus, that is "he-goat's horn" or "he-goat"; eleventh is aquarius, that is "pouring water" or "one that pours water"; twelfth is pisces, that is "fishes."

   Eom iċ lēo ġif iċ menn ete?

   Am I a lion if I eat people?

Declension

Weak:

	singular	plural
nominative	lēo	lēon
accusative	lēon	lēon
genitive	lēon	lēona
dative	lēon	lēom, lēoum

Further reading

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “leó”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Pukapukan

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *leo.

Noun

leo

1. voice

Samoan

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *leo.

Noun

leo

1. voice, sound

Sikaiana

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *leo.

Noun

leo

1. voice, sound of a voice
2. pronunciation
3. tune (of a song)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈleo/ [ˈle.o]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -eo
• Syllabification: le‧o

Etymology 1

Adjective

leo m or f (masculine and feminine plural leos)

1. Leo

Noun

leo m or f by sense (plural leos)

1. Leo

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

leo

1. first-person singular present indicative of leer

Further reading

• “leo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Swahili

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *dèèdó.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya):

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Adverb

leo

1. today

Tokelauan

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *leo. Cognates include Hawaiian leo and Māori reo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈle.o]
• Hyphenation: le‧o

Noun

leo

1. voice
2. talk
3. noise, sound

References

• R. Simona, editor (1986), Tokelau Dictionary‎^[2], Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 182

Tuvaluan

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *leo.

Noun

leo

1. voice, sound

Vietnamese

Etymology

From Proto-Vietic *g-lɛːw, whence also trèo.

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [lɛw˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [lɛw˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [lɛw˧˧]

• Audio (Saigon):

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Verb

leo • (尞, 僚, 撩, 繚, 蹽)

1. to climb

   leo cây ― to climb a tree

   leo núi ― to go mountain climbing or hiking

See also

• lên; trèo

• chanh leo
• cheo leo (từ láy)
• dây leo
• dưa leo
• leo cây
• leo thang
• leo trèo
• nói leo