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Italian
Verb
prosterno
- first-person singular present indicative of prosternare
Latin
Etymology
From prō- + sternō.
Pronunciation
Verb
prōsternō (present infinitive prōsternere, perfect active prōstrāvī, supine prōstrātum); third conjugation
- to strew in front of
- to prostrate, knock down, throw to the ground
- Synonyms: sternō, fundō, prōflīgō, ruō
- to overthrow or subvert
- Synonyms: subvertō, prōflīgō, impellō, pervertō, ēvertō, sternō, fundō, dēturbō, afflīgō, versō, vertō, dissipō
- to lay low, make fallen
Conjugation
Descendants
References
- “prosterno”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “prosterno”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- prosterno in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to throw any one to the ground: humi prosternere aliquem
- to throw oneself at some one's feet: ad pedes alicuius se proicere, se abicere, procumbere, se prosternere
- to rout the enemy: prosternere, profligare hostem
- English-Cheyenne Dictionary, Roldolph Petter
Spanish
Verb
prosterno
- only used in me prosterno, first-person singular present indicative of prosternarse