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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=Itala|origins=la leō, la pardus}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [ɫe.ɔˈpar.dʊs]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [le.oˈpar.dus]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''leopardus''' ''m'' (genitive leopardī); second declension^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is [[af|la|leō|pardus|t1=lion|t2=leopard, panther]].^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)^(TLL) The OLD thinks it is perhaps a Greek formation, and Wiktionary derives it from [[grc|λεόπαρδος|tr=leópardos]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) The ancients thought the animal a cross between a lioness and a male pard, as Isidore of Seville and a scholiast on Horace explain.^(Isidore)^(TLL)^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ Köbler's first source is the Old Latin Bible, the Itala, after 220 AD.^(Köbler 2010) The Historia Augusta mentions Libyan leopards and disarmed leopards.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It was the leopard, a Late Latin word found in the Historia Augusta.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) Isidore of Seville says, citing Pliny, that it is born from the adultery of a lioness and a pard and forms a third kind.^(Isidore)
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+ Medieval writers used it of the leopard and of a leopard skin.^(DMLBS) English ''leopard'' came from Old French ''lebard'' in the late 13th century.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * after 220 AD – The Itala uses it.^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 4th/5th century AD – The Historia Augusta mentions leopards.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * c. 560–636 AD – Isidore of Seville explains its origin.^(Isidore)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * late 13th century – English ''leopard'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Noun===
+ # A [[m|en|leopard]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)
+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A leopard skin.^(DMLBS)
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+ ==Word family==
+ * [[leopardālis]]
+ * [[leopardinus]]
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[pardus]]
+ * [[leo]]
+ * [[en|leopard]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}