deponent

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Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /diˈpəʊ.nənt/
  • (US) IPA(key): /diˈpoʊ.nənt/
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Adjective

deponent (not comparable)

  1. (grammar, of a verb) Having passive grammatical form (that is, conjugating like the passive voice), but an active meaning.

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Noun

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.

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Danish

Adjective

deponent

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

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Inflection

Inflection of deponent
positive comparative superlative
indefinite common singular deponent — —2
indefinite neuter singular deponent — —2
plural deponente — —2
definite attributive1 deponente — —

1 When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite,
the corresponding "indefinite" form is used.
2 The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively.

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Latin

Verb

dēpōnent

  1. third-person plural future active indicative of dēpōnō

Maltese

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian deponente.

Pronunciation

Noun

deponent m (plural deponenti)

  1. (grammar) deponent

Adjective

deponent (plural deponenti)

  1. deponent

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin deponens.

Noun

deponent m (plural deponenți)

  1. depositor

Declension

singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative deponent deponentul deponenți deponenții
genitive-dative deponent deponentului deponenți deponenților
vocative deponentule deponenților
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