pronus

pronus

1. conditional of pronar

From adverbial form of prō (“forward”). Compare Ancient Greek πρᾱνής (prānḗs)/ πρηνής (prēnḗs).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈproː.nʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈprɔː.nus]

prōnus (feminine prōna, neuter prōnum, comparative prōnior, superlative prōnissimus, adverb prōnē); first/second-declension adjective

1. turned forward, inclined, leaning, hanging
2. bent over, bending, stooping
3. prone, face down
4. (poetic, of heavenly bodies, time, etc.) setting, declining
5. (Post-Augustean, of localities) lying, looking towards, facing
6. (by extension) [with ad or in (+ accusative); or with dative or genitive ‘to someone, something’]
   1. disposed, inclined, prone
   2. inclined to favor, favorable (to)
   3. (chiefly Post-Augustean) easy

First/second-declension adjective.

• supīnus

• → Catalan: pron
• → English: prone
• → Italian: prono
• → Portuguese: prono
• → Spanish: prono

• “pronus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pronus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "pronus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• pronus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.