Dictionary

deponent en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /dɪˈpəʊnənt/ (UK)
• /dɪˈpoʊnənt/ (US)
• (US) audio
• /diˈpoʊ.nənt/ (US)

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Indo-European *-h₁ Proto-Indo-European *déh₁ Proto-Italic *dē Latin dē Latin dē- Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó Proto-Indo-European *h₂pó Proto-Italic *po Proto-Indo-European *teḱ- Proto-Indo-European *-éyti Proto-Indo-European *tḱéytibf. Proto-Indo-European *tḱey- Proto-Indo-European *-né- Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *tḱinéti Proto-Italic *sinō Proto-Italic *pozinō Latin pōnō Latin dēpōnō Latin dēpōnēnsder. English deponent From Latin dēpōnēns (“laying aside”), the present active participle of dēpōnō (“lay aside”), from dē- + pōnō (“put, place”). The name comes from the idea that such verbs were originally reflexive and then later "laid aside" their passive meanings.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable, of a verb) Having an active meaning, but conjugating as though it were being used with a different voice (such as the passive).

Deriveds

semi-deponent · deponently

Translations (19)

grc ἀποθετικός (of a verb: having an active meaning but conjugating with a different voice) · el αποθετικός (of a verb: having an active meaning but conjugating with a different voice) · it deponente (of a verb: having an active meaning but conjugating with a different voice) · ga diúscartach (of a verb: having an active meaning but conjugating with a different voice) · zh 異態 /异态 (of a verb: having an active meaning but conjugating with a different voice) · la dēpōnēns (of a verb: having an active meaning but conjugating with a different voice) · hu deponens (of a verb: having an active meaning but conjugating with a different voice) · hu álszenvedő (of a verb: having an active meaning but conjugating with a different voice) · fr déponent (of a verb: having an active meaning but conjugating with a different voice) · scn dipunenti (of a verb: having an active meaning but conjugating with a different voice) · nl deponent (of a verb: having an active meaning but conjugating with a different voice) · pl bierny (of a verb: having an active meaning but conjugating with a different voice) · sv deponentiell (of a verb: having an active meaning but conjugating with a different voice) · cs deponentní (of a verb: having an active meaning but conjugating with a different voice) · pt depoente (of a verb: having an active meaning but conjugating with a different voice) · es deponente (of a verb: having an active meaning but conjugating with a different voice) · fi deponentti (of a verb: having an active meaning but conjugating with a different voice) · zh 異相 /异相 (of a verb: having an active meaning but conjugating with a different voice) · da deponent (of a verb: having an active meaning but conjugating with a different voice)

deponent en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /dɪˈpəʊnənt/ (UK)
• /dɪˈpoʊnənt/ (US)
• (US) audio
• /diˈpoʊ.nənt/ (US)

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Indo-European *-h₁ Proto-Indo-European *déh₁ Proto-Italic *dē Latin dē Latin dē- Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó Proto-Indo-European *h₂pó Proto-Italic *po Proto-Indo-European *teḱ- Proto-Indo-European *-éyti Proto-Indo-European *tḱéytibf. Proto-Indo-European *tḱey- Proto-Indo-European *-né- Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *tḱinéti Proto-Italic *sinō Proto-Italic *pozinō Latin pōnō Latin dēpōnō Latin dēpōnēnsder. English deponent From Latin dēpōnēns (“laying aside”), the present active participle of dēpōnō (“lay aside”), from dē- + pōnō (“put, place”). The name comes from the idea that such verbs were originally reflexive and then later "laid aside" their passive meanings.

Meanings

1. A witness; especially one who gives information under oath, in a deposition concerning facts known to him or her.
   • The said William Aitken, being of new solemnly sworn, &c., depones he is a Burgess of Hawick, and had the property of a house which he now liferents, the fee being disponed to his son-in-law, Bailie Robert Scot, for the use of his son William, his daughter, Bailie Scot's wife, having paid the price of the house; depones sixty years ago Gilbert Elliot was tenant in Nether Southfield, who broke Hawick Common by plowing a part of it, which the Deponent saw at the Common-Riding when the Magistrates and other persons at the Common-Riding potched the ground he had plowed, and was then sown that he might not reap the crop of this. 1898, R. S. Craig, Adam Laing, The Hawick Tradition of 1514: The Town's Common Flag and Seal, page 240:
2. A deponent verb.

Forms

Relateds

affiant · deposition de bene esse · de bene esse · deposition · depose

Translations (18)

ga diúscartach (deponent verb) · ja 形式受動態動詞 (deponent verb) · la deponens (deponent verb) · ja 異態動詞 (deponent verb) · sv deponens (deponent verb) · nl deponent (deponent verb) · ja デポネント動詞 (deponent verb) · it deponente (deponent verb) · fi deponentti (deponent verb) · pl deponens (deponent verb) · is deponenssögn (deponent verb) · ja 形式所相動詞 (deponent verb) · fr déponent (deponent verb) · fi deponenttiverbi (deponent verb) · el αποθετικό (deponent verb) · de Deponens (deponent verb) · is aflagssögn (deponent verb) · ja 能動欠如動詞 (deponent verb)