The corpus record — Latin

semisupinus

semisupinus · adj

half bent backwards

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Where it lives

Ars Amatoria 1 · 0.67/10k
Amores 1 · 0.64/10k
Epistulae 1 · 0.39/10k
Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k

What it meant

sēmĭ-sŭpīnus — Lewis & Short

sēmĭ-sŭpīnus, a, um, adj.,

I half bent backwards, half-supine (poet.): jacet in dextrum semisupina latus, Ov. A. A. 3, 788; id. Am. 1, 14, 20: manus, id. H. 10, 10; Mart. 6, 35, 4.

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