léonin
French, adjective/le.ɔ.nɛ̃/
léonin is spelled L-É-O-N-I-N (6 letters) and appears about once in every 22 million words in written French, the 150,781st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Léonin is a French adjective meaning “lion; leonine” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui se rapporte au lion, qui fait penser à un lion”.
What does léonin mean in English?
adjective
- 1
lion; leonine
- 2
unequal, unjust
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui se rapporte au lion, qui fait penser à un lion. 2. Qui est très inégal, très défavorable, très dur pour une des deux parties qui contractent un arrangement, un traité et qui s’en trouve gravement lésée. 3. Qui avantage l’une des parties au détriment complet des autres. 4. Se dit d’une rime qui s’étend sur deux syllabes.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of léonin
- léonine feminine
- léonins masculine plural
- léonines feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce léonin?
- /le.ɔ.nɛ̃/
- \le.ɔ.nɛ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to léonin
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is léonin in French?
léonin appears about once in every 22 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).