Supine
Form of verbal noun used in some languages / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For other uses, see Supine (disambiguation).
In grammar, a supine is a form of verbal noun used in some languages. The term is most often used for Latin, where it is one of the four principal parts of a verb. The word refers to a position of lying on one's back (as opposed to 'prone', lying face downward), but there exists no widely accepted etymology that explains why or how the term came to be used to also describe this form of a verb.
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