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Latin
Etymology
Present active participle of iaceō (“lie prostrate, recline”).
Participle
iacēns (genitive iacentis); third-declension one-termination participle
- lying prostrate, lying down; reclining
- lying ill, being sick
8 CE,
Ovid,
Fasti 5.411–412:
- ōscula saepe dedit, dīxit quoque saepe iacentī
‘vīvē, precor, nec mē, care, relinque, pater!’- Often gave kisses; often, too, he said to lying ill : “Live! I pray, and don’t leave me, dear father.”
(An accident has mortally wounded the centaur Chiron, tutor to young Achilles, who expresses devotion as might a son to his dying father.)
- lingering, tarrying
- being placed or situated, lying
- being low, flat or level
- lying still
- lying dead
- lying in ruins
- hanging down loose
- (of the face or eyes) being fixed on the ground, being cast down
- being indolent, idle or inactive
- lying dormant or abandoned, being of no avail
- lying overthrown; being refuted; being despised
- (of speech or language) being languid, dull or lifeless
Declension
Third-declension participle.
1When used purely as an adjective.
References
- “iacens”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- iacens in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to inspire the spiritless and prostrate with new vigour: excitare animum iacentem et afflictum (opp. frangere animum)