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.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪˈpəʊnənt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /dɪˈpoʊnənt/, /diˈpoʊ.nənt/

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• Rhymes: -əʊnənt

deponent (not comparable)

1. (grammar, of a verb) Having an active meaning, but conjugating as though it were being used with a different voice (such as the passive).

• Category:Deponent verbs by language

deponent (plural deponents)

1. (law) A witness; especially one who gives information under oath, in a deposition concerning facts known to him or her.
   • 1898, R. S. Craig, Adam Laing, The Hawick Tradition of 1514: The Town's Common Flag and Seal, page 240:

     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.

2. (grammar) A deponent verb.

• depose
• deposition
• deposition de bene esse

• affiant
• de bene esse

From Latin dēpōnēns.

deponent (neuter deponent, plural and definite singular attributive deponente)

1. (grammar, of a verb). verb conjugated passively but used actively.

• “deponent” in Den Danske Ordbog

dēpōnent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of dēpōnō

• deponenti

Borrowed from Italian deponente.

• IPA^(key): /dɛ.pɔˈnɛnt/
• Rhymes: -ɛnt

deponent m (plural deponenti)

1. (grammar) deponent

deponent (plural deponenti)

1. deponent

Borrowed from Latin deponens.

deponent m (plural deponenți, feminine equivalent deponentă)

1. depositor