prone

English

Etymology

From Latin prōnus (“turned forward, bent or inclined”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -əʊn

Adjective

prone (comparative more prone, superlative most prone)

1. Lying face downward; prostrate (Wikipedia).
   • 1907, Robert Chambers, chapter 1/2, The Younger Set^[1]:

     […] presently Selwyn lay prone upon the nursery floor, impersonating a ladrone while pleasant shivers chased themselves over Drina, whom he was stalking.

2. Having a downward inclination or slope.
3. Shooting from a lying down position.
4. Predisposed, liable, inclined.

Derived terms

• prone to

Translations

lying face downward; prostrate

• Finnish: rähmällään (fi), vatsallaan (fi), kasvoillaan (fi)
• German: in Bauchlage (de)
• Greek: πρηνής (el) (prinís)

• Norwegian: legge seg flat (no)
• Russian: лежащий ничком (ru) (ležáščij ničkóm), (лежа́щий) лицом вниз (ru) (licóm vniz)
• Spanish: postrado (es) m

inclined, sloped

• Finnish: vino (fi), kallistunut (fi), kallistettu (fi), kallellaan (fi), viettävä (fi)
• French: enclin (fr)
• German: schräg (de)
• Indonesian: rentan (id)

• Norwegian: prone (no)
• Portuguese: inclinado (pt)
• Russian: наклонный (ru) (naklónnyj)

shooting from lying down position

• Finnish: makuulta (fi)

• Russian: лёжа (ru) (ljóža) (adverb)

predisposed

• Catalan: predisposat (ca), propens (ca), procliu (ca)
• Finnish: altistettu (fi), altistunut (fi); taipuvainen (fi)
• French: prédisposé (fr), enclin (fr)

• German: anfällig (de), geneigt (de)
• Russian: склонный (ru) (sklónnyj), предрасположенный (ru) (predraspolóžennyj)

Anagrams

• preon

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Italian

Adjective

prone f

1. feminine plural of prono

Anagrams

• perno

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Latin

Adjective

prōne

1. vocative masculine singular of prōnus