deponent
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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[edit]
Adjective[edit]
deponent (not comparable)
- (grammar, of a verb) Having passive grammatical form (that is, conjugating like the passive voice), but an active meaning.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
of a verb: having a passive form with an active meaning
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See also[edit]
Noun[edit]
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[edit]
Translations[edit]
witness — see witness
deponent verb
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Danish[edit]
Adjective[edit]
deponent
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Inflection[edit]
Inflection of deponent | |||
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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. |
Further reading[edit]
Latin[edit]
Verb[edit]
dēpōnent
Maltese[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Italian deponente.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
deponent m (plural deponenti)
Adjective[edit]
deponent (plural deponenti)
Related terms[edit]
Romanian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
deponent m (plural deponenți)
Declension[edit]
Declension of deponent
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) deponent | deponentul | (niște) deponenți | deponenții |
genitive/dative | (unui) deponent | deponentului | (unor) deponenți | deponenților |
vocative | deponentule | deponenților |
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