deponent

English

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/

• Audio (US):

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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.

Derived terms

• deponently
• semi-deponent

 

Translations

of a verb: having a passive form with an active meaning

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 異態 / 异态, 異相 / 异相 (zh)

• Danish: deponent
• Dutch: deponent
• Finnish: deponentti (fi)
• Greek: αποθετικός (el) (apothetikós)

  Ancient: ἀποθετικός (apothetikós)

• Hungarian: álszenvedő (hu), deponens
• Irish: diúscartach
• Italian: deponente (it)
• Latin: dēpōnēns (la)
• Portuguese: depoente
• Spanish: deponente (es)
• Swedish: deponentiell (sv)

See also

• Category:Deponent verbs by language

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.

Related terms

• depose
• deposition
• deposition de bene esse

Translations

witness — see witness

deponent verb

• Dutch: deponent
• Finnish: deponentti (fi), deponenttiverbi (fi)
• French: déponent (fr)
• German: Deponens (de) n
• Icelandic: aflagssögn f, deponenssögn f
• Irish: diúscartach m
• Italian: deponente (it) m
• Latin: deponens (la)
• Swedish: deponens (sv)

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Translations to be checked

• Esperanto: deponento

See also

• affiant
• de bene esse

Danish

Adjective

deponent

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

Examples

• mødes.
• slås.
• skændes.
• færdes.

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.

Further reading

• “deponent” in Den Danske Ordbog

Latin

Verb

dēpōnent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of dēpōnō

Maltese

Alternative forms

• deponenti

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian deponente.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɛ.pɔˈnɛnt/

Noun

deponent m (plural deponenti)

1. (grammar) deponent

Adjective

deponent (plural deponenti)

1. deponent

Related terms

• ddepona

 

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