prosterno

See also: prosternò

Italian

Verb

prosterno

1. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) first-person singular present indicative of prosternare

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Latin

Etymology

From

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /proːsˈter.noː/, [proːs̠ˈt̪ɛrnoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /prosˈter.no/, [prosˈt̪ɛrno]

Verb

1. I strew in front of
2. I prostrate
3. I overthrow or subvert
4. I lay low, make fallen

Descendants

• English: prostrate, prostern
• French: prosterner
• Italian: prostrare, prosternare
• Portuguese: prostrar, prosternar
• Spanish: prostrar, postrar

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^[1], 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
    

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Spanish

Verb

prosterno

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of prosternar.