prone

From Latin prōnus (“turned forward, bent or inclined”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pɹəʊn/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /pɹoʊn/
• Rhymes: -əʊn

prone (comparative more prone, superlative most prone)

1. Lying face downward.

   Synonym: prostrate

   Antonym: supine

   prone position

   • 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326:

     But they had already discovered that he could be bullied, and they had it their own way; and presently Selwyn lay prone upon the nursery floor, impersonating a ladrone while pleasant shivers chased themselves over Drina, whom he was stalking.

2. Having a downward inclination or slope.
3. Shooting from a lying down position.
4. (figuratively) Predisposed, liable, inclined.

   prone to failure

   • 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 141”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. Neuer before Imprinted‎, London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, OCLC 216596634:

     Nor are mine ears with thy tongue's tune delighted; / Nor tender feeling, to base touches prone, / Nor taste, nor smell, desire to be invited / To any sensual feast with thee alone: […]

• accident-prone
• error-prone
• gossip-prone
• injury-prone
• prone to
• proneness

• prone position on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• preon

prone

1. feminine plural of prono

• perno

prōne

1. vocative masculine singular of prōnus

• 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