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pronate

/ˈpɹoʊ.neɪt/verb, adjective

pronate is a verb meaning “To turn or rotate one’s hand and forearm so that the palm faces down if the forearm is horizontal, back if the arm is pointing down, or forward if…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-R-O-N-A-T-E and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 65 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does pronate mean?

verb

  1. 1

    To turn or rotate one’s hand and forearm so that the palm faces down if the forearm is horizontal, back if the arm is pointing down, or forward if the forearm is pointing up; to twist the right forearm counterclockwise or the left forearm clockwise.

  2. 2

    To twist the foot so that if walking the weight would be borne on the inner edge of the foot.

  3. 3

    To become pronated.

adjective

  1. 1

    Somewhat prone; inclined.

    pronate trees

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce pronate?

  • UK /ˈpɹəʊ.neɪt/
  • US /ˈpɹoʊ.neɪt/

Pronate has 2 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of pronate

  • pronates present, singular, he/she/it
  • pronating participle, present
  • pronated participle, past
  • more pronate comparative
  • most pronate superlative

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is pronate?

Pronate appears about once in every 65 million words in written English, the 252,559th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Pronate in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense transitive:

LanguageWords
Spanishpronar

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does pronate come from?

From Latin prōnatus, past participle of prōnare (“to bend forward”). See prone.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).