FromLatindēpōnēns(“laying aside”), the present active participle ofdēpōnō(“lay aside”), fromdē- +pōnō(“put, place”). The name comes from the idea that such verbs were originally reflexive and then later "laid aside" their passive meanings.
deponent (notcomparable)
- (grammar, of a verb) Having anactive meaning, but conjugating as though it were being used with a different voice (such as thepassive).
of a verb: having an active meaning but conjugating with a different voice
deponent (pluraldeponents)
- (law) Awitness; especially one who gives information under oath, in adeposition 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, page240: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 theDeponent 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.
- (grammar) Adeponent verb.
Translations to be checked
deponent
- (grammar, of a verb).verb conjugatedpassively but usedactively.
Inflection ofdeponent | positive | comparative | superlative |
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| indefinite common singular | deponent | — | —2 |
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| indefinite neuter singular | deponent | — | —2 |
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| plural | deponente | — | —2 |
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| definite attributive1 | deponente | — | — |
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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.
dēpōnent
- third-personpluralfutureactiveindicative ofdēpōnō
Borrowed fromItaliandeponente.
deponent m (pluraldeponenti)
- (grammar)deponent
deponent (pluraldeponenti)
- deponent
Borrowed fromLatindeponens.
deponent m (pluraldeponenți)
- depositor
