depositorium

Forms

dēpositōrium n (genitive dēpositōriī); second declension^[1][2]

Etymology

It is from Latin dēpōnō (“to put down, deposit”),^[2][3] formed with the suffix ⟨-tōrium⟩ for a place.^[3]

Earliest recorded meaning

Its only ancient record is in the Latin translation of Irenaeus,^[3][2] which Köbler dates, with a query, to the 4th century AD:^[4] the apostles are said to have placed all truth in the Church as a rich man places his goods in a depositorium, a place for keeping things.^[3]

Semantic evolution

Medieval writers kept the sense of a place where something is stored, a storeroom.^[5][6] In the towns of late medieval Hungary and Poland it named the warehouse where goods for sale were laid down,^[7][6] and in Polish legal Latin also the thing handed over for safekeeping.^[6]

Timeline

• 1465 – A Polish record uses it for a storeroom in which oats were kept.^[6]
• 1497 – A charter of Košice (Cassovia) uses it for the town's warehouse for goods.^[7]

Meanings

Noun

1. A repository, a place where things are kept.^[2][3][5]
2. (Medieval Latin) A warehouse where goods for sale were laid down.^[7][6]
3. (Medieval Latin, law) A thing given for safekeeping, a deposit.^[6]

Related words

• depositum
• English depository

References

1. ^ Conte, Gian Biagio; Pianezzola, Emilio; Ranucci, Giuliano (2010), il Latino: Vocabolario della lingua latina, 3rd ed., Florence: Le Monnier
2. ^ a b c d Georges, Karl Ernst (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th ed., ed. Heinrich Georges, Hannover; Leipzig: Hahn
3. ^ a b c d e Thesaurus linguae Latinae (1900–), Leipzig: Teubner; Berlin: De Gruyter; open-access ed., Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
4. ^ Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
5. ^ a b Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch bis zum ausgehenden 13. Jahrhundert (1967–), Munich: C. H. Beck; Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
6. ^ a b c d e f Lexicon mediae et infimae Latinitatis Polonorum (1953–), Kraków: Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN; electronic ed. elexicon.scriptores.pl
7. ^ a b c Bartal, Antal, et al. (1987–), Lexicon Latinitatis Medii Aevi Hungariae, Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó; online ed. ELTE