depositio

Latin

Etymology

From dēpōnō (“deposit, depose”) +‎ -tiō (resultative noun suffix).

Noun

dēpositiō f (genitive dēpositiōnis); third declension

1. depositing, burying
2. deposition, testimony

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	dēpositiō	dēpositiōnēs
Genitive	dēpositiōnis	dēpositiōnum
Dative	dēpositiōnī	dēpositiōnibus
Accusative	dēpositiōnem	dēpositiōnēs
Ablative	dēpositiōne	dēpositiōnibus
Vocative	dēpositiō	dēpositiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: deposició
• French: déposition
• Galician: deposición
• Italian: deposizione
• Portuguese: deposição
• Spanish: deposición

References

• “depositio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• depositio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• depositio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.