leaena

See also: Leaena

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek λέαινα (léaina).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /leˈae̯.na/, [ɫ̪eˈäe̯nä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /leˈe.na/, [leˈɛːnä]

Noun

leaena f (genitive leaenae); first declension

1. lioness

   Synonym: lea

   • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Proverbs.26.13:

     Dīcit piger: Leaena in viā, leō in itineribus. [Text reordered in later editions; see below.]

   • 1592 CE, Sixto-Clementine Vulgate, Proverbs 26.13:

     Dīcit piger: Leō est in viā, et leaena in itineribus.

     • 1752 translation by Douay-Rheims, Challoner rev.

       The slothful man saith: There is a lion in the way, and a lioness in the roads.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	leaena	leaenae
Genitive	leaenae	leaenārum
Dative	leaenae	leaenīs
Accusative	leaenam	leaenās
Ablative	leaenā	leaenīs
Vocative	leaena	leaenae

Related terms

• leō m

Descendants

• → Italian: leena

References

• “leaena”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “leaena”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• leaena in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “leaena”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎^[1]
• “leaena”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “leaena”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray