leoninus
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leonina Adjective: feminine nominative singular, Adjective: neuter nominative plural, Adjective: feminine vocative singular, Adjective: neuter accusative plural, Adjective: neuter vocative plural, Adjective: feminine ablative singular of leoninus
lĕōnīnus, a, um, adj. [2. leo], of or belonging to a lion, a lion's.
- I Lit.: concede audacter ab leonino cavo, Plaut. Men. 1, 2, 47 (156): 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.
1. leōnīnus, a, um (leo), zum Löwen gehörig, vom Löwen, eines Löwen, Löwen-, cavum, Löwenhöhle, Plaut.: species, Varro: iuba, Plin.: pellis, Plin. u.a.: rugitus, Iul. Val.: catuli, Val. Max.: in der Architektur, capita leonina scalpere, Vitr. – Bildl., societas, Löwengesellschaft (wenn der eine Teil bloß den Gewinn hat, den anderen bloß der Schaden trifft), Ulp. dig. 17, 2, 29. § 2.
quid tu quoque ‥ catule ~e, Aureli Canine, agis?
qui prius ~a feritate fulminans ipsis omnia abstulerat, nunc mitis agnus ‥ omnia posse reddere letatur
[Robertus dux ] ore ~us, corde leporinus
dum tamen penitus odor exulet ~us [] w. allusion to 4infra
truculentia ~a, rapacitate lupina
~i pectoris animum erigit
lepra ‥ que est ex sanguine colerico adusto ‥ vocatur ~a
lepra cedit leonina, / sua victa medicina
lepre ‥ tercia species fit de colera adusta et vocatur ~a propter ferocitatem similem ferocitati leonis
mercatores ‥ introduxerant in Angliam monetas ‥ pessimi metalli ‥ aquilarum, ~arum, dormiencium et aliorum diversorum nominum
leonitas est consonantia in duabus ultimis sillabis. ‥ hec faciunt versus ~os, quos vix contingit in aliquo opere auctentico nisi casualiter invenire
apposuit epitaphium scriptor, non ~a dictatum cantilena, sed simplici commendatum stilo
~am consonantiam
Fredericus imperator ‥ ~am obsedit et cepit
2 lĕōnīnus, a, um (leo), de lion : Varro R. 2, 9, 3 ; Plin. 37, 142 || [fig.] leonina societas Ulp. Dig. 17, 2, 29, 2, société dont un membre prend la part du lion.