prone

From Middle English prone, proone, proon, from Latin prōnus (“turned forward, bent or inclined”), from prō (“forward”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pɹəʊn/

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• Rhymes: -əʊn

prone (comparative proner or more prone, superlative pronest or most prone)

1. Lying face-down.

   Synonym: prostrate

   Antonym: supine

   prone position

   • 1907 August, Robert W Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:

     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.

2. Of the hand, forearm or foot: turned facing away from the body; with the thumb inward or big toe downward.

   the hand is in the prone position typically when using a keyboard; and the forearm is then also in the prone position; when the foot is resting on the inner side of the sole, it is in the prone position.

3. Having a downward inclination or slope.
4. (figuratively) Predisposed, liable, inclined.

   prone to failure

   • 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 141”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. ‎, London: By G Eld for T T and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:

     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: […]

• neveling
• nuel

• supine

prone (third-person singular simple present prones, present participle proning, simple past and past participle proned)

1. (medicine) To place in a prone position, to place face down.

• prone out

• prone position on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Peron, preon

prone

1. feminine plural of prono

• perno

prōne

1. vocative masculine singular of prōnus

prōnē (comparative prōnius, superlative prōnissimē)

1. leaning forward
2. prone

• “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.
• prone - Latin is Simple Online Dictionary