Translation
to lie, lie down; to be situated
Examples
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The body is lying on the ground.
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The town lay below the mountain.
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Many dead were lying in the field.
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He could not lie in bed for long.
vidimus.
We saw a soldier lying in the road.
Iaceo, iacere, iacui, second conjugation, intransitive, and with no supine. The one thing to get right is the neighbour: iacio, iacere, ieci, iactum, "to throw", is third conjugation, and the two share the infinitive iacere and nothing else. The vowel lengths differ, which helps in verse and not at all in prose.
The relationship between them is not accidental. What has been thrown down is what now lies there, so iaceo is the state iacio produces. Beyond bodies and corpses it covers geography, where a town or a plain "lies" somewhere, and social standing, where iacere is to be flat, low, out of favour: iacet ars, "the art is in the doldrums". English adjacent, adjacency and gist all come through the participle.
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