different between prostrate vs sarment

English

Etymology

Latin pr?str?tus, past participle of pr?sternere (“to prostrate”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p??st?e?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?p??st?e?t/
• Hyphenation: pros?trate

Adjective

prostrate (not comparable)

1. Lying flat, face-down.

   Synonym: prone

   Antonym: supine

   • 1945, Sir Winston Churchill, VE Day speech from House of Commons:

     Finally almost the whole world was combined against the evil-doers, who are now prostrate before us.

2. (figuratively) Emotionally devastated.
3. Physically incapacitated from environmental exposure or debilitating disease.

4. (botany) Trailing on the ground; procumbent.

Translations

Verb

prostrate (third-person singular simple present prostrates, present participle prostrating, simple past and past participle prostrated)

2. (often reflexive) To lie flat or face-down.
3. (also figuratively) To throw oneself down in submission.
4. To cause to lie down, to flatten.
5. (figuratively) To overcome or overpower.
   • 1936, Margaret Mitchell, Gone With the Wind

     Why this very minute she's prostrated with grief.

Usage notes

• Prostrate and prostate are often confused, in spelling if not in meaning.

Related terms

• prostration

Translations

See also

• kowtow

Anagrams

• Perrottas

Italian

Verb

prostrate

1. second-person plural present indicative of prostrare
2. second-person plural imperative of prostrare
3. feminine plural of prostrato

Latin

Participle

pr?str?te

1. vocative masculine singular of pr?str?tus

English

Etymology

Latin sarmentum (“a twig”).

Noun

sarment (plural sarments)

1. (botany) A prostrate filiform stem or runner, as of the strawberry.

Related terms

• sarmentose

Anagrams

• Arments, artsmen, martens, raments, smarten, starmen

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin sarmentum.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /s???ment/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /s?r?men/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /sa??ment/

Noun

sarment m (plural sarments)

1. shoot, vine

   Synonym: redorta

Derived terms

• sarmentós

Further reading

• “sarment” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

French

Etymology

From Latin sarmentum

Noun

sarment m (plural sarments)

1. vine, shoot, tendril

Further reading

• “sarment” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).