jacent

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin jacens, present participle of jacere (“to lie”): compare (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French jacent.

Adjective

jacent (not comparable)

1. Lying at length.

   the jacent posture

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “jacent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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French

Adjective

jacent (feminine jacente, masculine plural jacents, feminine plural jacentes)

1. underlying

Derived terms

• sous-jacent

Further reading

• “jacent”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) jacent

1. third-person plural present active indicative of jaceō