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): /dɪˈpəʊnənt/
- (US) IPA(key): /dɪˈpoʊnənt/, /diˈpoʊ.nənt/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -əʊnənt
Adjective
deponent (not comparable)
- (grammar, of a verb) Having an active meaning, but conjugating as though it were being used with a different voice (such as the passive).
Derived terms
Translations
of a verb: having an active meaning but conjugating with a different voice
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See also
- Category:Deponent verbs by language
Noun
deponent (plural deponents)
- (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.
- (grammar) A deponent verb.
Related terms
- depose
- deposition
- deposition de bene esse
Translations
witness — see witness
deponent verb
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See also
Danish
Adjective
deponent
Examples
Inflection
| 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
Latin
Verb
dēpōnent
- third-person plural future active indicative of dēpōnō
Maltese
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian deponente.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dɛ.pɔˈnɛnt/
Noun
deponent m (plural deponenti)
Adjective
deponent (plural deponenti)
Related terms
Romanian
Etymology
Noun
deponent m (plural deponenți)
Declension
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
| nominative-accusative | deponent | deponentul | deponenți | deponenții | |
| genitive-dative | deponent | deponentului | deponenți | deponenților | |
| vocative | deponentule | deponenților | |||