león
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Galician
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]león m (plural leóns)
Further reading
[edit]- “león”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012
Old Norse
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin leō (“lion”).
Noun
[edit]león m (genitive leóns, plural leónir)
Declension
[edit] Declension of león (strong i-stem, s-genitive)
Descendants
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[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Lion_waiting_in_Namibia.jpg/220px-Lion_waiting_in_Namibia.jpg)
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Antlion.jpg/220px-Antlion.jpg)
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Escudo_de_Le%C3%B3n.svg/220px-Escudo_de_Le%C3%B3n.svg.png)
Etymology
[edit]From Latin leōnem (compare Catalan lleó, French lion, Galician león, Italian leone, Portuguese leão, Romanian leu), from Ancient Greek λέων (léōn), of Semitic origin. Doublet of leu.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]león m (plural leones, feminine leona, feminine plural leonas)
- lion
- antlion
- Synonym: hormiga león
- (heraldry) lion
- (figurative) a brave person
- (Central America, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela) cougar, puma, mountain lion
- Synonyms: león de montaña, pantera, puma
- (soccer) a person connected with Athletic Bilbao, a Spanish football team from the city of Bilbao
Hyponyms
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[edit]Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “león”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Anagrams
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