Alternative forms

• leonza, onza

Noun

lonza f (plural lonze)Category:Italian lemmas#LONZACategory:Italian nouns#LONZACategory:Italian countable nouns#LONZACategory:Italian entries with incorrect language header#LONZACategory:Italian feminine nouns#LONZACategory:Pages with entries#LONZACategory:Pages with 1 entry#LONZA

1. (literaryCategory:Italian literary terms#LONZA) term used in the Middle Ages to describe a type of wild cat, possibly a lynx or leopard (cf. Portuguese onça) Category:it:Felids#LONZA
   • 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto I”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 31–33; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2^nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

     Ed ecco, quasi al cominciar de l'erta, ¶ una lonza leggera e presta molto, ¶ che di pel macolato era coverta; […]

     And lo! almost where the ascent began, a panther light and swift exceedingly, which with a spotted skin was covered o'er!

     Category:Italian terms with quotations#LONZA

2. (zoologyCategory:it:Zoology#LONZA, uncommonCategory:Italian uncommon terms#LONZA) alternative name for two species of felines:
   1. snow leopard, irbis (Panthera uncia)
   2. jaguar (Panthera onca)

Further reading

• lónza¹ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• lonza (animale) on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it

Noun

lonza f (plural lonze)Category:Italian lemmas#LONZACategory:Italian nouns#LONZACategory:Italian countable nouns#LONZACategory:Italian entries with incorrect language header#LONZACategory:Italian feminine nouns#LONZACategory:Pages with entries#LONZACategory:Pages with 1 entry#LONZA

1. loin of porkCategory:it:Meats#LONZA

Further reading

• lónza² in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• lonza on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it