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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Ulpian|origins=la dēpositum}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [deː.pɔ.sɪˈtaː.ri.ʊs]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [de.po.s̬iˈtaː.ri.us]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''dēpositārius''' ''m'' (genitive dēpositāriī or dēpositārī); second declension^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is [[af|la|dēpositum|-ārius|t1=deposit]], from [[dēpōnō]] “to put down, deposit”.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ Gaffiot cites Ulpian in the Digest, and Köbler lists inscriptions.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010) Köbler dates Ulpian before 223 AD.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ A legal word, it meant one who receives a deposit, a trustee, depositary, and in Ulpian also one who makes a deposit.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)
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+ British Medieval Latin used it for a depositary or bursar, and the neuter as a noun for a depository.^(DMLBS) It survives as Italian and Spanish ''depositario''.^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * before 223 AD – Ulpian uses it.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Noun===
+ # A [[m|en|depositary]], trustee of a deposit.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)
+ # One who makes a deposit.^(Gaffiot 2016)
+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A [[m|en|bursar]].^(DMLBS)
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[dēpositum]]
+ * [[dēpōnō]]
+ * [[en|depositary]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}