carponi
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Adverb[edit]
carponi
- on all fours, on one's hands and knees
- Synonyms: a quattro piedi, a quattro zampe, gattoni
- 2019, George Orwell, translated by Nicola Gardini, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Mondadori:
- Poi rotolò di lato e, stentando a ritrovare l'equilibrio, si mise carponi.
- Then he rolled over and raised himself unsteadily on hands and knees.
- (literally, “Then he rolled to the side and, struggling to regain his balance, got down on all fours.”)