deponents
Meaning of deponents
- a deponent verb.
- a person who makes a deposition or affidavit under oath.
late Middle English: from Latin deponent- ‘laying aside, putting down’ (in medieval Latin ‘testifying’), from the verb deponere, from de- ‘down’ + ponere ‘place’. The use in grammar arose from the notion that the verb had ‘laid aside’ the passive sense (although in fact these verbs were originally reflexive).
Information about deponents
- It is a name.
- The singular form of deponents is: deponent.
- Languages in which deponents is used:
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CatalanHyphenation of deponents
de-po-nents
- It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
- deponents is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
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