prostrate
prostrate
意味(日本語)
ひれ伏した、倒れた、敗北した ◇L.pro(=前に)+sternere(=打ち倒す)
語源
- stern-, strat- : L.sternere=to stretch out, spread(広げる)
意味(英語)
- (verb-transitive) To put or throw flat with the face down, as in submission or adoration: "He did not simply sit and meditate, he also knelt down, sometimes even prostrated himself” ( Iris Murdoch).
- (verb-transitive) To cause to lie flat: The wind prostrated the young trees.
- (verb-transitive) To reduce to extreme weakness or incapacitation; overcome: an illness that prostrated an entire family; a nation that was prostrated by years of civil war.
- (adjective) Lying face down, as in submission or adoration.
- (adjective) Lying flat or at full length.
例文
- By the way, avoid some embarrassment by not confusing prostate, which can be inflamed enough to knock you to the floor, with the word prostrate, which means you are lying flat on the floor.
語源が同じ単語を一緒に覚えよう
consternate
consternate
(受動態で)ぎょうてんさせる
語源
- stern-, strat- : L.sternere=to stretch out, spread(広げる)
consternation
consternation
(びっくり)ぎょうてん
語源
- stern-, strat- : L.sternere=to stretch out, spread(広げる)
prostration
prostration
平伏、屈従、衰弱
語源
- stern-, strat- : L.sternere=to stretch out, spread(広げる)
stratification
stratification
層化、(社会)階層化、地層
語源
- stern-, strat- : L.sternere=to stretch out, spread(広げる)
stratify
stratify
層にする、(社)階層化する
語源
- stern-, strat- : L.sternere=to stretch out, spread(広げる)
stratum
stratum
地層、(社)階級 ◇L.sternere(=撒き散らす、広げる、おおう)
語源
- stern-, strat- : L.sternere=to stretch out, spread(広げる)
superstratum
superstratum
(地)上層、表層、(言語)上層言語(一時的に語彙で優勢な言語)
語源
- stern-, strat- : L.sternere=to stretch out, spread(広げる)
strata
strata
stratumの複数形
語源
- stern-, strat- : L.sternere=to stretch out, spread(広げる)
street
street
通り ◇L.sternere(=舗装する)、注.(語源は同じ)
語源
- stern-, strat- : L.sternere=to stretch out, spread(広げる)
boulevard
boulevard
広い並木街路、大通り
語源
- stern-, strat- : L.sternere=to stretch out, spread(広げる)