(adjective) : lĕōnīnus, a, um, 2. leo
* Of or belonging to a lion, a lion's.
* Lit.: concede audacter ab leonino cavo,Plaut. Men. 1, 2, 47: species,a lion-like appearance,Varr. R. R. 2, 9, 3: pellis,Plin. 37, 10, 54, § 142: jubae,id. ib.: adeps,id. 24, 17, 102, § 165.—*
* Trop.: leonina societas, a lion's partnership, i. e. in which one party gets all the profit and the other all the loss: Aristo refert: Cassium respondisse, societatem talem coiri non posse, ut alter lucrum tantum, alter damnum sentiret, et hanc societatem leoninam solitum appellare,Dig. 17, 2, 29, § 2.

s. TLL