leonine

核心释义

1. 1.

   狮子的；与狮子有关的；具有狮子特征的；似狮的。

   Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a lion; lionlike.

2. 2.

   Of or pertaining to one of the popes named Leo; specifically (in Leonine City), to Pope Leo IV (r. 847–855) who ordered the building of a wall around Vatican Hill to protect what is now Vatican City, or (in Leonine Prayers) to Pope Leo XIV (r. 2025–present).

3. 3.

   Being or relating to a kind of medieval Latin verse, generally alternative hexameter and pentameter, with rhyming at the middle and end of a line (that is, internal rhyme); also (by extension), of or relating to modern verse having internal rhyme.

狮子的；狮子般的