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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.

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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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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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deponent

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Inflection of deponent
Positive Comparative Superlative
Indefinte 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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dēpōnent

  1. third-person plural future active indicative of dēpōnō

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Borrowed from Italian deponente.

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deponent m (plural deponenti)

  1. (grammar) deponent

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deponent (plural deponenti)

  1. deponent

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Borrowed from Latin deponens.

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deponent m (plural deponenți)

  1. depositor

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