different between reclining vs decubitus

English

Adjective

reclining (not comparable)

1. Capable of being reclined, or moved into a more horizontal position.

   a reclining armchair

2. (botany) Bending away from the perpendicular; recumbent.

Verb

reclining

1. present participle of recline

Noun

reclining (plural reclinings)

1. The act of one who reclines.
   • 1865, Edward Dutton Cook, Sir Felix Foy, Bart. (page 233)

     Mr. Disbrowe was reclining on a well-worn horsehair-covered sofa, his frequent reclinings on which piece of furniture had stamped a deep and quite ineffaceable impression of his weighty form upon the cushion.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin d?cubitus (“lying down”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??kju?.b?t.?s/

Noun

decubitus (plural decubitus)

1. (medicine) The posture of someone in bed, lying down or reclining.
2. (pathology) Ellipsis of decubitus ulcer.

Translations

References

• “decubitus”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Latin

Etymology

From d?cumb? (“to lie down”) +? -tus (action noun suffix), on the pattern of words such as accubitus from accumb? (“to lay oneself down at, to recline at table”).

Pronunciation

• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /de?ku.bi.tus/, [d???ku?bit?us]

Noun

d?cubitus m (genitive d?cubit?s); fourth declension (New Latin)

1. Lying down.

Inflection

Fourth-declension noun.

Descendants

• ? English: decubitus