prone
English
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prone and supine position
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /pɹəʊn/
- (General American) IPA(key): /pɹoʊn/
- Rhymes: -əʊn
Adjective
prone (comparative more prone, superlative most prone)
- Lying face downward.
- 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326:
- But they had already discovered that he could be bullied, and they had it their own way; and presently Selwyn lay prone upon the nursery floor, impersonating a ladrone while pleasant shivers chased themselves over Drina, whom he was stalking.
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- Having a downward inclination or slope.
- Shooting from a lying down position.
- (figuratively) Predisposed, liable, inclined.
- prone to failure
- 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 141”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. Neuer before Imprinted, London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, OCLC 216596634:
- Nor are mine ears with thy tongue's tune delighted; / Nor tender feeling, to base touches prone, / Nor taste, nor smell, desire to be invited / To any sensual feast with thee alone: […]
Derived terms
- accident-prone
- error-prone
- gossip-prone
- injury-prone
- prone to
- proneness
Translations
lying face downward; prostrate
inclined, sloped
predisposed
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Further reading
prone position on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Latin
References
- prone in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- prone in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- prone in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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