different between bloodthirsty vs leonine

English

Etymology

From blood +? thirsty. Cognate with West Frisian bloeddorstich (“bloodthirsty”), Dutch bloeddorstig (“bloodthirsty”), German blutdürstig (“bloodthirsty”), Danish blodtørstig (“bloodthirsty”), Swedish blodtörstig (“bloodthristy”), Norwegian blodtørstig (“bloodthirsty”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?bl?d???sti/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?bl?d???sti/
• Hyphenation: blood?thirsty, blood?thirs?ty

Adjective

bloodthirsty (comparative bloodthirstier or more bloodthirsty, superlative bloodthirstiest or most bloodthirsty)

1. Thirsty for blood: inexorably violent or eager for bloodshed; murderous.

   Synonyms: bloodlusty, homicidal, (archaic) murtherous, murderous

   Antonym: unbloodthirsty
2. Of a book, film, etc.: depicting much violence; gory, violent.
3. (humorous) Of a mosquito, tenaciously seeking to draw blood.

Alternative forms

• blood-thirsty
• bloudthirsty, bloud-thirsty (obsolete)

Derived terms

Translations

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?li??na??n/

Etymology 1

From Latin le?n?nus (“lion-like”); leo +? -ine.

Alternative forms

• lionine (obsolete)

Adjective

leonine (comparative more leonine, superlative most leonine)

1. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a lion.
   • 1887, Thomas Adolphus Trollope, What I Remember, Volume 2, chapter XIV (ebook):

     He [Landor] was a man of somewhat leonine aspect as regards the general appearance and expression of the head and face, which accorded well with the large and massive build of the figure, and to which a superbly curling white beard added not only picturesqueness, but a certain nobility.

Translations

Noun

leonine (plural leonines)

1. (numismatics, historical) A 13th-century coin minted in Europe and used in England as a debased form of the sterling silver penny, outlawed under Edward I.

Etymology 2

Perhaps from Leoninus, a 12th-century canon in Paris, or from Pope Leo II.

Noun

leonine (plural leonines)

1. (poetry) A kind of Latin verse, generally alternate hexameter and pentameter, rhyming at the middle and end.

Anagrams

• Noeline

Italian

Adjective

leonine

1. feminine plural of leonino

Latin

Adjective

le?n?ne

1. vocative masculine singular of le?n?nus