Leonine

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
Leonine /ˈliːənʌɪn/

▶adjective

• 1 relating to one of the popes named Leo, especially denoting the part of Rome fortified by Leo IV.

• 2 Prosody (of medieval Latin verse) in hexameter or elegiac metre with internal rhyme.

  ■ (of English verse) with internal rhyme.

▶noun (Leonines) Prosody Leonine verse.

– origin ME: from the name Leo, from L. leo ‘lion’.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
leonine /ˈliːənʌɪn/

▶adjective of or resembling a lion or lions.

– origin ME: from OFr., or from L. leoninus, from leo, leon- ‘lion’.