different between inanimate vs supine

English

Etymology

in- +? animate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?æn?m?t/

Adjective

inanimate (comparative more inanimate, superlative most inanimate)

1. Lacking the quality or ability of motion; as an inanimate object.
2. Not being, and never having been alive, especially not like humans and animals.
3. (grammar) Not animate.

Synonyms

• (unable to move): immobile, motionless
• (not alive): non-animate, lifeless, insentient, insensate

Antonyms

• (grammar): animate

Translations

Noun

inanimate (plural inanimates)

1. (rare) Something that is not alive.

Verb

inanimate (third-person singular simple present inanimates, present participle inanimating, simple past and past participle inanimated)

1. (obsolete) To animate.
   • 1621, John Donne, An Anatomy of the World: The First Anniversary

     For there's a kind of world remaining still, Though shee which did inanimate and fill

Anagrams

• Mantineia, amanitine, maintaine

Italian

Adjective

inanimate f pl

1. feminine plural of inanimato

Latin

Adjective

inanim?te

1. vocative masculine singular of inanim?tus

English

Etymology

The adjective is borrowed from Latin sup?nus (“lying down with the face upwards, supine; careless, heedless, thoughtless, negligent, indolent; (grammar) supine”), from *sup- (see sub (“under”)) + -?nus (“of, pertaining to”). The word is cognate with Catalan supí, Italian supino (“on one's back, supine”), Old French sovin, Middle French souvin, Anglo-Norman supin, Old Occitan sobin, sopin, Portuguese supino (“on one's back, supine”), Spanish supino (“on one's back, supine”).

The noun is from Late Middle English supin (“supine of a Latin verb”) or Middle French supin (“(grammar) supine”), from Latin sup?num, (ellipsis of sup?num verbum (“supine verb”)), from sup?nus; further etymology above.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?s(j)u?pa?n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?su?pa?n/, /?su?pa?n/
• Hyphenation: sup?ine

Adjective

supine (comparative more supine, superlative most supine)

1. Lying on its back.

   Synonym: reclined

   Antonyms: prone, prostrate
2. (figuratively) Reluctant to take action due to indifference or moral weakness; apathetic or passive towards something.

   Synonyms: passive, peaceful, lazy, lethargic, listless
3. (rare, now poetic) Inclining or leaning backward; inclined, sloping.

   Synonyms: inclined, sloping

Antonyms

• nonsupine
• prone

Derived terms

Related terms

• resupine

Translations

Noun

supine (plural supines)

1. (grammar, also attributively) In Latin and other languages: a type of verbal noun used in the ablative and accusative cases, which shares the same stem as the passive participle.
2. (grammar, also attributively) In Swedish, Faroese, Icelandic and Old Norse: a verb form that combines with an inflection of ha/hafa/hava to form the present perfect and pluperfect tenses.
3. (grammar, also attributively) (obsolete terminology) The 'to'-prefixed infinitive in English or other Germanic languages, so named because the infinitive was regarded as a verbal noun and the 'to'-prefixed form of it was seen as the dative form of the verbal noun; the full infinitive.

Derived terms

• supine tense

Translations

See also

• gerund
• infinitive

References

Further reading

• supine position on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• supine (grammar) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• supine (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• puisne, punies

Italian

Adjective

supine

1. feminine plural of supino

Latin

Adjective

sup?ne

1. vocative masculine singular of sup?nus

References

• supine in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• supine in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette