Leontes

== Latin == === Etymology === Borrowed from Ancient Greek Λέοντες (Léontes). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɫeˈɔn.tɛs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [leˈɔn.tes] === Proper noun === Leontēs m sg (genitive Leontae); first declension a river in Phoenicia, mentioned by Ptolemy, now the Litani River ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun (masculine, Greek-type, nominative singular in -ēs), singular only. === References === “Leontes”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly