Leontes

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Λέοντες (Léontes).

View of the river

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /leˈon.tes/, [ɫ̪eˈɔn̪t̪ɛs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /leˈon.tes/, [leˈɔn̪t̪es]

Proper noun

Leontēs m sg (genitive Leontae); first declension

1. A river in Phoenicia, mentioned by Ptolemy, now the Litani River

Declension

First-declension noun (masculine Greek-type with nominative singular in -ēs), singular only.

	singular
nominative	Leontēs
genitive	Leontae
dative	Leontae
accusative	Leontēn
ablative	Leontē
vocative	Leontē

References

• “Leontes”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly