Lagewort — meaning in English
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English meaning
- preposition noun A word such as in, on, at, to, from, with or by that links a noun or pronoun to the rest of the sentence, usually showing place, time, direction or relationship.
- supine adjective Lying flat on the back with the face turned upward.
Senses
Lagewort is used for these senses in English:
- adposition (grammar) An element that combines syntactically with a phrase and indicates how that phrase should be interpreted in the surrounding context; a preposition or postposition.
- preposition (grammar, strict sense) Any of a class of non-inflecting words and multiword terms typically employed to connect a following noun or a pronoun, in an adjectival or adverbial sense, with some other word: a particle used with a noun or pronoun (in English always in the objective case) to make a phrase limiting some other word.
- supine (grammar, also, attributively) (obsolete terminology) The 'to'-prefixed infinitive in English or other Germanic languages, so named because the infinitive was regarded as a verbal noun and the 'to'-prefixed form of it was seen as the dative form of the verbal noun; the full infinitive.
supine — full definition
- adjective Lying flat on the back with the face turned upward.
- adjective Failing to act or resist when action is called for; passively accepting whatever happens.
- noun In Latin grammar, a verbal noun formed from the past participle stem, used in a small number of fixed constructions.