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depot

See also: Depot, dépot, and dépôt

English

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An old railroad depot (sense 2) at Rolling Fork, Mississippi, USA

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Etymology

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From French dépôt, from Old French depost, from Medieval Latin dēpositum, from Latin, participle of dēpōnō, dēpōnere. Doublet of deposit.

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Noun

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depot (plural depots)

  1. 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.
  2. 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
  3. (US) A bus station or railway station.
  4. (military) A place where recruits are assembled before being sent to active units.
  5. (military) A place for the storage, servicing or upgrade of military hardware.
  6. (military) The portion of a regiment that remains at home when the rest go on foreign service.
  7. (card games) The tableau; the area where cards can be arranged in solitaire or patience games.

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Danish

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Etymology

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From French dépôt.

Noun

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depot n (singular definite depotet, plural indefinite depoter)

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Declension

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Declension of depot
neuter
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative depot depotet depoter depoterne
genitive depots depotets depoters depoternes

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Dutch

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Etymology

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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

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  • IPA(key): /deːˈpoː/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: de‧pot
  • Rhymes: -oː

Noun

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depot n or m (plural depots, diminutive depotje n)

  1. a depot, a storage facility

Descendants

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  • Petjo: depot
  • → Caribbean Javanese: dhépo, ndhépo

Indonesian

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Etymology

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From Dutch depot, either from French dépôt or Middle French deposte, from Latin dēpositus.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈd̪epɔt̪̚]
  • Hyphenation: dé‧pot

Noun

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depot (plural depot-depot, first-person possessive depotku, second-person possessive depotmu, third-person possessive depotnya)

  1. depot: a storage facility, in particular, a warehouse.
  2. small house for trading.
  3. alternative spelling of depo (“motive power depot, traction maintenance depot, railway depot”).

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