supin (1212)

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supin (1212)

[gdw]

  FEW:  supinus 12,444a Gdf: GdfC:  supin 10,727c TL: supin 9,1079 DEAF:  supin  DMF:  supin  TLF:  supin  OED:  supine a. and adv.  MED: DMLBS:  supinus 3322c
 

The context and Latin original seem to suggest that the word is used in Dial Greg satf with the meaning ‘face down, prostrate’, deviating from the etymological sense of 'face up, lying on one’s back' (cf. sovin).

a.

1face down, prostrate (?)
( 1212; MS: 1212-13 ) E soi mist a la terre nue, supin en croiz molt umblement, E si orot [...] (Latin: sese in orationem dedit, in terram faciem depressit)  10601
sovin 
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