"ниц" meaning in Russian

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ru",
        "2": "cu",
        "3": "ниць"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic ниць (nicĭ)",
      "name": "bor+"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ru",
        "2": "sla-pro",
        "3": "*nĩcь"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Slavic *nĩcь",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic ниць (nicĭ), from Proto-Slavic *nĩcь.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "nic",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": ""
      },
      "expansion": "ниц • (nic)",
      "name": "ru-adv"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Russian",
  "lang_code": "ru",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Russian entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "to fall prone",
          "roman": "pastʹ nic",
          "text": "пасть ниц",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "He is implacable! He drove away\nThe bishops, the boyars, and the patriarch.\nIn vain did they prostrate themselves before him;\nHe cannot bear the glory of the throne.",
          "ref": "1831, Александр Пушкин [Alexander Pushkin], “Красная плошадь”, in Борис Годунов; English translation from Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, transl., Boris Godunov, New York: Vintage Books, 2023:",
          "roman": "Neumolím! On ot sebjá prognál\nSvjatítelej, bojár i patriárxa.\nOní pred nim naprásno páli nic;\nJevó strašít sijánije prestóla.",
          "text": "Неумоли́м! Он от себя́ прогна́л\nСвяти́телей, боя́р и патриа́рха.\nОни́ пред ним напра́сно па́ли ниц;\nЕго́ страши́т сия́ние престо́ла.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "prone, face down"
      ],
      "id": "en-ниц-ru-adv-WX~Y4VzH",
      "links": [
        [
          "prone",
          "prone"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "stilted or literary",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dated, stilted or literary) prone, face down"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[nʲit͡s]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ниц"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ru",
        "2": "cu",
        "3": "ниць"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic ниць (nicĭ)",
      "name": "bor+"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ru",
        "2": "sla-pro",
        "3": "*nĩcь"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Slavic *nĩcь",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic ниць (nicĭ), from Proto-Slavic *nĩcь.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "nic",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": ""
      },
      "expansion": "ниц • (nic)",
      "name": "ru-adv"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Russian",
  "lang_code": "ru",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Russian 1-syllable words",
        "Russian adverbs",
        "Russian dated terms",
        "Russian entries with incorrect language header",
        "Russian lemmas",
        "Russian literary terms",
        "Russian terms borrowed from Old Church Slavonic",
        "Russian terms derived from Old Church Slavonic",
        "Russian terms derived from Proto-Slavic",
        "Russian terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Russian terms with quotations",
        "Russian terms with redundant head parameter",
        "Russian terms with usage examples",
        "ru:Body language"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "to fall prone",
          "roman": "pastʹ nic",
          "text": "пасть ниц",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "He is implacable! He drove away\nThe bishops, the boyars, and the patriarch.\nIn vain did they prostrate themselves before him;\nHe cannot bear the glory of the throne.",
          "ref": "1831, Александр Пушкин [Alexander Pushkin], “Красная плошадь”, in Борис Годунов; English translation from Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, transl., Boris Godunov, New York: Vintage Books, 2023:",
          "roman": "Neumolím! On ot sebjá prognál\nSvjatítelej, bojár i patriárxa.\nOní pred nim naprásno páli nic;\nJevó strašít sijánije prestóla.",
          "text": "Неумоли́м! Он от себя́ прогна́л\nСвяти́телей, боя́р и патриа́рха.\nОни́ пред ним напра́сно па́ли ниц;\nЕго́ страши́т сия́ние престо́ла.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "prone, face down"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "prone",
          "prone"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "stilted or literary",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dated, stilted or literary) prone, face down"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[nʲit͡s]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ниц"
}