iacens

== Latin == === Etymology === Present active participle of iaceō (“lie prostrate, recline”). === Participle === iacēns (genitive iacentis); third-declension one-termination participle lying prostrate, lying down; reclining lying ill, being sick lingering, tarrying being placed or situated, lying being low, flat or level lying still lying dead lying in ruins hanging down loose (of the face or eyes) being fixed on the ground, being cast down being indolent, idle or inactive lying dormant or abandoned, being of no avail lying overthrown; being refuted; being despised (of speech or language) being languid, dull or lifeless ==== Declension ==== Third-declension participle. 1When used purely as an adjective. === References === “iacens”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “iacens”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.