dépôt

dépôt (plural dépôts)

1. Rare spelling of depot.
   • 1864, James Parton, chapter III, in General Butler in New Orleans, Mason Brothers, page 67:

     Not less prompt were the Third and Eighth regiments, for they began to arrive in Boston as early as nine, each company welcomed at the dépôt by applauding thousands.

• PEDOT, opted, poted, toped

From Old French depost, from Latin dēpositum (“deposit”, noun), also the passive participle of dēpōnere (“to deposit”). Cognate with Spanish depósito.

• IPA^(key): /de.po/

• Audio:

  (file)

dépôt m (plural dépôts)

1. warehouse, store, depot, depository
2. act of depositing, act of placing
3. (parliamentary procedure) tabling
4. (law) filing
5. deposit (object being deposited)
6. registration, proposal

   Aujourd'hui est le dernier jour de dépôt des candidatures.

   Today is the last day for registering candidacy.

7. (banking) deposit
8. (geology) deposit

• boîte de dépôt
• dépôt de bilan

• déposer (verb)

• → Danish: depot
• →? Dutch: depot
• → English: depot
• → German: Depot
• → Turkish: depo, debboy

• “dépôt”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.