depot
English edit
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Etymology edit
From French dépôt, from Old French depost, from Medieval Latin dēpositum, from Latin, participle of dēpōnō, dēpōnere. Doublet of deposit.
Pronunciation edit
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈdɛpəʊ/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈdiːpoʊ/, (military) /ˈdɛpoʊ/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈdepɐʉ/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɛpəʊ
Noun edit
depot (plural depots)
- A storage facility, in particular, a warehouse.
- 2013 May-June, Charles T. Ambrose, “Alzheimer’s Disease”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 200:
- Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems—surgical foam, a thermal gel depot, a microcapsule or biodegradable polymer beads.
- A storage space for public transport and other vehicles where they can be maintained and from which they are dispatched for service.
- Coordinate term: truckyard
- (US) A bus station or railway station.
- (military) A place where recruits are assembled before being sent to active units.
- (military) A place for the storage, servicing or upgrade of military hardware.
- (military) The portion of a regiment that remains at home when the rest go on foreign service.
- (card games) The tableau; the area where cards can be arranged in solitaire or patience games.
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Translations edit
warehouse or similar storage facility
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bus or railway station
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military: place where recruits are assembled
card games — see tableau
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Danish edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
depot n (singular definite depotet, plural indefinite depoter)
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Declension of depot
neuter gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | depot | depotet | depoter | depoterne |
genitive | depots | depotets | depoters | depoternes |
Further reading edit
- “depot” in Den Danske Ordbog
Dutch edit
Alternative forms edit
- (obsolete) depôt
Etymology edit
Either from Middle Dutch depoost, from Middle French deposte, from Latin dēpositus, with adaptation of the spelling and pronunciation to Modern French dépôt, or borrowed anew from French dépôt, from the same Middle French word.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
depot n or m (plural depots, diminutive depotje n)
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Indonesian edit
Etymology edit
From Dutch depot, either from French dépôt or Middle French deposte, from Latin dēpositus.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
depot (plural depot-depot, first-person possessive depotku, second-person possessive depotmu, third-person possessive depotnya)
- depot: a storage facility, in particular, a warehouse.
- small house for trading.
- alternative spelling of depo (“motive power depot, traction maintenance depot, railway depot”).
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Further reading edit
- “depot” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.