SUPINE
\sˈuːpa͡ɪn], \sˈuːpaɪn], \s_ˈuː_p_aɪ_n]\
Definitions of SUPINE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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Leaning backward, or inclining with exposure to the sun; sloping; inclined.
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A verbal noun; or (according to C.F.Becker), a case of the infinitive mood ending in -um and -u, that in -um being sometimes called the former supine, and that in -u the latter supine.
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Supineness.
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Supineness.
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Supinely.
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Lying on the back: leaning backward: negligent: indolent.
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Supin name given to the verbal form in um and u (so called perh. because though furnished with case endings, it rests or falls back on the verb).
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n. [Latin] A verbal noun or a substantival modification of the infinitive mood in Latin, of which there are two, the first ending in um of the accusative case, which has an active signification, and the second ending in u of the ablative case, which has a passive signification.
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