different between wont vs prone

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /w??nt/, /w?nt/
• (General American) enPR: w?nt, wônt, w?nt, w?nt, IPA^(key): /w?nt/, /w?nt/, /wo?nt/, /w?nt/
• Rhymes: -??nt
• Homophone: want (some pronunciations)
• Homophone: won't (some pronunciations)

Etymology 1

Origin uncertain; apparently a conflation of wone (“custom, habit, practice”) and wont (participle adjective, below). Compare German Low German Gewohnte (“custom, habit”) and Dutch gewoonte. Likely related to wone, wonder, wean, and win, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wenh?- (“to wish for, strive for, pursue; to succeed, win”); more there.

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Noun

wont (usually uncountable, plural wonts)

1. (archaic) One's habitual way of doing things; custom, habit, practice.
   • 2001, Orhan Pamuk; Erda? M. Göknar, transl., “I am Called Black”, in My Name Is Red, London: Faber and Faber, ?ISBN; paperback edition, London: Faber and Faber, 2002, ?ISBN, page 62:

     With a simple-minded desire, and to rid my mind of this irrepressible urge, I retired to a corner of the room, as was my wont, but after a while I realized I couldn't jack off—proof well enough that I'd fallen in love again after twelve years!

Translations

See also

• meo more

Etymology 2

From Middle English wont, iwoned, from Old English ?ewunod, past participle of ?ewunian. The verb is derived from the adjective.

Adjective

wont (not comparable)

1. Accustomed or used (to or with a thing), accustomed or apt (to do something).
   • c. 1580, Edmund Spenser, “The Teares of the Mvses[: Thalia]”, in Complaints: Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. VVhereof the Next Page Maketh Mention, London: Imprinted for VVilliam Ponsonbie, dwelling in Paules Churchyard at the signe of the Bishops head, published 1591, ?OCLC; republished in “The Teares of the Mvses[: Thalia]”, in The Faerie Qveen: The Shepheards Calendar: Together with the Other Works of England's Arch-Pöet, Edm. Spenser: Collected into One Volume, and Carefully Corrected, London: Printed by H[umphrey] L[ownes] for Mathew Lownes, 1617, ?OCLC:

     What be the ?weet delights of learning a trea?ure, / That wont with Comick ?ock to beautify / The painted Theaters, and fill with plea?ure / The li?tners eyes, and eares with melodie; […]

Derived terms

• unwont
• use and wont
• wontly

Translations

See also

• prone to
• used to

Verb

wont (third-person singular simple present wonts, present participle wonting, simple past and past participle wonted)

1. (transitive, archaic) To make (someone) used to; to accustom.
2. (intransitive, archaic) To be accustomed (to something), to be in the habit (of doing something).
   • 1751, [Thomas Gray], An Elegy Wrote in a Country Church-yard, London: Printed for R[obert] Dodsley in Pall-Mall; and sold by M[ary] Cooper in Pater-noster-Row, ?OCLC; republished as “An Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard”, in A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes. By Several Hands, volume IV, 2nd edition, London: Printed by J. Hughs, for R[obert] and J[ames] Dodsley, at Tully's-Head in Pall-Mall, 1758, ?OCLC, page 5:

     On ?ome fond brea?t the parting ?oul relies, / Some pious drops the clo?ing eye requires; / Ev'n from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, / Ev'n in our A?hes live their wonted Fires.

Translations

Anagrams

• Town, nowt, town

Middle English

Alternative forms

• wonte, wontt, woont

Etymology

From Old English wand, wond, from Proto-Germanic *wanduz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /w?nt/, /w??nt/

Noun

wont (plural wontes)

1. mole (Talpa europea)

   Synonyms: moldewarpe, molle

Descendants

• English: want (dialectal)
• Scots: want

References

• “wont(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

English

Etymology

From Middle English prone, proone, proon, from Latin pr?nus (“turned forward, bent or inclined”), from pr? (“forward”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /p???n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /p?o?n/
• Rhymes: -??n

Adjective

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

1. Lying face downward.

   Synonym: prostrate

   Antonym: supine
2. Having a downward inclination or slope.
3. (figuratively) Predisposed, liable, inclined.

Synonyms

• neveling
• nuel

Antonyms

• supine

Derived terms

Translations

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.

Further reading

• prone position on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Peron, preon

Italian

Adjective

prone

1. feminine plural of prono

Anagrams

• perno

Latin

Adjective

pr?ne

1. vocative masculine singular of pr?nus

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