leon – Old Spanish noun declension

Noun: leon
Gender: m

[…] cõ leõ ſe leuantara e con leona ſe alcara nos echara faſta q̃ coma. rabadura e ſangre de matados breura. (“ […] Like a lion it shall rise up and like a lioness it shall lift itself up. It shall not lie down until it eats prey, and the blood of those slain it shall drink.”) [c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, 25r:]
Et por ende a tal p̃priedat eſta piedra q̃ el q̃ la trae obedecẽ le los leones aſſi q̃ los puede tomar a manos ⁊ nol farã mal por q̃ el leõ q̃ndo la uee pierde toda la fuerça ⁊ nõ a en ſi poder. (And such is the property of this stone that lions will obey he who bears it, so that he can touch them with his hands and they will not harm him, for when he sees it the lion loses all its strength and has in him no power.) [c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 6v:]

peccador, leon,

From Latin leōnem, singular accusative of leō, from Ancient Greek λέων (léōn). See: Ancient Greek Nouns 'λέων'.

Old Portuguese Nouns leon.

Old Spanish noun forms of leon