Word.ws English Dictionary

deponent

UK/dɪˈpəʊnənt//dɪˈpoʊnənt/

deponent adjective: having an active meaning, but conjugating as though it were being used with a different voice (such as the passive).

Adjective

deponent (not comparable)

  1. Having an active meaning, but conjugating as though it were being used with a different voice (such as the passive).

Noun

deponent (plural deponents)

  1. A witness; especially one who gives information under oath, in a deposition concerning facts known to him or her.
    • 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...1898, R. S. Craig, Adam Laing, The Hawick Tradition of 1514: The Town's Common Flag and Seal, page 240
  2. A deponent verb.

deponent meaning in Tamil and Kannada

deponent in Tamil

சான்றுரைஞர், சான்றுரைபவர், சான்றுரைப்பவர்

deponent in Kannada

ಹೇಳಿಕೆ ನೀಡುವವನು, ಹೇಳಿಕೆದಾರ

Forms of deponent

pluraldeponents

Origin of deponent

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.

Words formed from deponent

Words that rhyme with deponent

Questions about deponent

What does deponent mean?
Deponent means having an active meaning, but conjugating as though it were being used with a different voice (such as the passive).
What is deponent in Tamil?
Deponent in Tamil is சான்றுரைஞர், சான்றுரைபவர், சான்றுரைப்பவர். See Deponent meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is deponent?
Deponent can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce deponent?
Deponent is pronounced /dɪˈpəʊnənt/ (UK).

Words near deponent in the dictionary

  1. depolyploidized
  2. depolyploidizes
  3. depolyploidizing
  4. depone
  5. deponed
  6. deponent
  7. deponential
  8. deponently
  9. deponents
  10. deponer
  11. deponers

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: deponent (page history and authors); deponent (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); deponent (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-deponent.wav.

Cite this entry: “deponent.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/deponent. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.