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motionless
English
Etymology
motion +? -less
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?m????nl?s/
- (US) IPA(key): /?mo???nl?s/
Adjective
motionless (not comparable)
- at rest, stationary, immobile, not moving.
Translations
Anagrams
- somnolites
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supine
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)
- Lying on its back.
- Synonym: reclined
- Antonyms: prone, prostrate
- (figuratively) Reluctant to take action due to indifference or moral weakness; apathetic or passive towards something.
- Synonyms: passive, peaceful, lazy, lethargic, listless
- (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)
- (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.
- (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.
- (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
- feminine plural of supino
Latin
Adjective
sup?ne
- 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
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