leon – Old Portuguese noun declension

Noun: leon
Gender: m Hyphenation:

⁊ el rreŷ ptenoꝛ outºſſŷ q̃ era moŷ bon caualro ⁊ brauo / ⁊ ardido cõmo hũ leõ. (And King Prothoenor, as well, who was a very good horseman and brave and bold as a lion.) [1373 January 20, Fernán Martís, “Cõmo outs çem naues tomarõ porto [How other one hundred ships took the port]” (chapter 116), in Cronica Troiana [Trojan Chronicle], Kingdom of Galicia, translation of Roman de Troie by Benoît de Sainte-Maure (in Old French), →OCLC, manuscript MSS/10233, pages 39v–40r:]

leon,

Inherited from Latin leō, borrowed from Ancient Greek λέων (léōn). Cognate with Old French lion and Old Spanish leon. See: Old Spanish Nouns 'leon'.

Old Portuguese noun forms of leon