prone

See also: prôné, prône, and Prone

English

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/

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• Rhymes: -əʊn

Adjective

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

prone and supine position

1. Lying face-down.

   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:

     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. […]‎^[1], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:

     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: […]

Synonyms

• neveling
• nuel

Antonyms

• supine

Derived terms

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

 

Translations

lying face downward; prostrate

• Asturian: de focicos
• Bulgarian: проснат (bg) (prosnat), легнал по очи (legnal po oči)
• Catalan: pron (ca), bocaterrós (ca)
• Czech: na břiše, (obsolete) nicí
• 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), a pancia in giù
• 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)
• Swedish: på mage
• 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 (ca), propens, procliu (ca)
• Czech: náchylný, mající sklony
• 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), propendiente
• 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.

Derived terms

• prone out

Further reading

• prone position on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Peron, preon

Italian

Adjective

prone

1. feminine plural of prono

Anagrams

• perno

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