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supin (1212)

[gdw]

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

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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