prone

See also: prôné and prône

English

prone and supine position

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɹəʊn/
• IPA^(key): /pɹoʊn/
• Rhymes: -əʊn

Adjective

prone (comparative more prone, superlative most prone)

1. Lying face downward.

   Synonym: prostrate

   Antonym: supine

   prone position

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

   prone to failure

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     Nor are mine ears with thy tongue's tune delighted; / Nor tender feeling, to base touches prone, / Nor taste, nor smell, desire to be invited / To any sensual feast with thee alone: […]

Derived terms

• accident-prone
• error-prone
• gossip-prone
• injury-prone
• prone to
• proneness

Translations

lying face downward; prostrate

• Catalan: pron (ca), bocaterrós (ca)
• Finnish: rähmällään, vatsallaan, kasvoillaan
• French: couché sur le ventre
• German: in Bauchlage
• Greek: πρηνής (el) (prinís)

  Ancient Greek: πρανής (pranḗs)

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• Italian: prono (it), prostrato (it), inchinato (it), reclino (it)
• Maori: tāpapa
• Norwegian: legge seg flat
• Occitan: amorrat, abocat
• Old English: neowol
• Russian: лежа́щий ничко́м (ležáščij ničkóm), (лежа́щий) лицо́м вниз (licóm vniz)
• Spanish: postrado (es) m, de bruces (es), decúbito prono (es)

inclined, sloped

• Finnish: vino (fi), kallistunut (fi), kallistettu (fi), kallellaan (fi), viettävä (fi)
• French: enclin (fr)
• German: schräg (de)
• Indonesian: rentan (id), berisiko
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• Italian: pendente (it), inclinato (it), reclino (it), obliquo (it)
• Norwegian: prone
• Portuguese: inclinado (pt), prono (pt)
• Russian: накло́нный (ru) (naklónnyj)

shooting from lying down position

• Finnish: makuulta
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• Russian: лёжа (ru) (ljóža) (adverb)

predisposed

• Catalan: predisposat, propens, procliu (ca)
• Finnish: altistettu (fi), altistunut (fi); taipuvainen (fi), altis (fi)
• French: prédisposé (fr), enclin (fr)
• Galician: atreito m, suxeito (gl) m, apicoañado m, dado (gl) m
• German: anfällig (de), geneigt (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: καταφερής (katapherḗs)

• Italian: incline (it), predisposto (it), portato (it), disposto (it), orientato (it)
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• Occitan: enclin, portat a, predispausat
• Polish: skłonny (pl)
• Portuguese: propenso (pt)
• Russian: скло́нный (ru) (sklónnyj), предрасполо́женный (ru) (predraspolóžennyj)
• Spanish: propenso (es)
• Swedish: benägen (sv)

Further reading

• prone position on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• preon

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Italian

Adjective

prone

1. feminine plural of prono

Anagrams

• perno

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Latin

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) prōne

1. vocative masculine singular of prōnus

References

• “prone”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “prone”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• prone in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.