prostration
/pɹɒˈstɹeɪʃən/prah-STRAY-shuhn
UK form converted from the US by rule · unchecked/pɹɑˈstɹeɪʃən/prah-STRAY-shuhn
Meaningthe state of being prostrate
Common meaning: lying face down
Other meanings: total exhaustion
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- proforward; forth
- stratto spread out, lay flatLewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), p. 1757 · scan
- ionnoun ending: act or result
‘forward’ + ‘to spread out, lay flat’ → prostration
Journey through time
- Latinsternō, strāvī, strātum‘to spread out, lay flat’
- Englishprostrate‘lying flat, face down’
- Englishformed in English from prostrateprostration‘lying face down’ · today
Sources & notes
Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
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- US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
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Origin: Formed in English from prostrate + -ion.
Dictionary: Skeat (1898), PROSTRATE, p.472 · scan
Roots
- sternō, strāvī, strātum Latin “to spread out, lay flat”
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