prone

prone

See also: prôné, prône, and Prone

English

prone and supine position

Etymology

From Middle English prone, proone, proon, from Latin prōnus (“turned forward, bent or inclined”), from prō (“forward”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pɹəʊn/

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

Adjective

prone (comparative proner or more prone, superlative pronest or most prone)

1. Lying face downward.

   Synonym: prostrate

   Antonym: supine

   prone position

   • 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326:

     But they had already discovered that he could be bullied, and they had it their own way; and presently Selwyn lay prone upon the nursery floor, impersonating a ladrone while pleasant shivers chased themselves over Drina, whom he was stalking.

2. Of the hand, forearm or foot: turned facing away from the body; with the thumb inward or big toe downward.

   the hand is in the prone position typically when using a keyboard; and the forearm is then also in the prone position; when the foot is resting on the inner side of the sole, it is in the prone position.

3. Having a downward inclination or slope.
4. (figuratively) Predisposed, liable, inclined.

   prone to failure

   • 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 141”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […]‎, London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, OCLC 216596634:

     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: […]

   • 2019 November 20, “Thanathorn: Thai opposition leader disqualified as MP”, in BBC‎, BBC, retrieved 2019-11-21:

     Future Forward came third in the elections with 6.2 million votes, and Mr Thanathorn has since emerged as the main voice of opposition to the military-dominated government. He has been a strong critic of the powerful army's role in coup-prone Thai politics.

Synonyms

• neveling
• nuel

Antonyms

• supine

Derived terms

• accident-prone
• error-prone
• flood-prone, floodprone
• gossip-prone
• injury-prone
• pronate
• pronation
• proned
• proneness
• prone to
• proning

 

Translations

lying face downward; prostrate

Bulgarian: проснат (bg) (prosnat), легнал по очи (legnal po oči) Catalan: pron (ca), bocaterrós (ca) Finnish: vatsallaan, mahallaan, kasvoillaan, rähmällään French: couché sur le ventre Galician: de bruzos German: in Bauchlage Greek: πρηνής (el) (prinís) Ancient: πρανής (pranḗs) Italian: prono (it), prostrato (it), inchinato (it), reclino (it) Latin: prōnus Maori: tāpapa Norwegian: legge seg flat Occitan: amorrat, abocat Old English: neowol Portuguese: de bruços (pt) Russian: лежа́щий ничко́м (ležáščij ničkóm), (лежа́щий) лицо́м вниз (licóm vniz) Slovak: doluznačky Spanish: postrado (es) m, de bruces (es), decúbito prono (es) Vietnamese: úp (vi), sấp (vi)

inclined, sloped

Azerbaijani: meyilli, əyilən, meyil edən Bulgarian: наклонен (bg) (naklonen) Finnish: vino (fi), kallistunut (fi), kallistettu (fi), kallellaan (fi), viettävä (fi) French: enclin (fr) German: schräg (de) Indonesian: rentan (id), berisiko 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

Bulgarian: легнал (bg) (legnal) Finnish: makuulta Russian: лёжа (ru) (ljóža) (adverb)

predisposed

Azerbaijani: meyilli, mayil Bulgarian: склонен (bg) (sklonen) Catalan: predisposat, propens, procliu (ca) Finnish: altis (fi), altistettu (fi), altistunut (fi); taipuvainen (fi) French: prédisposé (fr), enclin (fr) Galician: atreito m, suxeito (gl) m, apicoañado m, dado (gl) m German: anfällig (de), geneigt (de) Greek: Ancient: καταφερής (katapherḗs) Italian: incline (it), predisposto (it), portato (it), disposto (it), orientato (it) Latin: prōpensus Occitan: enclin (oc), portat a, predispausat Polish: skłonny (pl) Portuguese: propenso (pt) Russian: скло́нный (ru) (sklónnyj), предрасполо́женный (ru) (predraspolóžennyj) Spanish: propenso (es) Swedish: benägen (sv)

Verb

prone (third-person singular simple present prones, present participle proning, simple past and past participle proned)

1. (medicine) To place in a prone position, to place face down.

Further reading

• prone position on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Peron, preon

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Italian

Adjective

prone

1. feminine plural of prono

Anagrams

• perno

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Latin

Adjective

prōne

1. vocative masculine singular of prōnus

Adverb

prōnē (comparative prōnius, superlative prōnissimē)

1. leaning forward
2. prone

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
• prone - Latin is Simple Online Dictionary