depot English · revision 14900

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=1794|origins=la dēpōnō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: UK /ˈdep.əʊ/, US /ˈdiː.poʊ/, /ˈdep.oʊ/^(Roach et al. 2011)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|fr|dépôt|t=deposit, place of deposit]],^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(MWU 2024) from [[fro|depost|t=a deposit or pledge]],^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline) from [[la|dēpositum|t=a deposit]], the neuter past participle of [[m|la|dēpōnō|t=to lay aside, put down]].^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(Cresswell 2021) It is a doublet of [[deposit]].^(Barnhart 1988)^(Cresswell 2021)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The act of depositing, a now obsolete sense: 1794.^(Barnhart 1988)^(OED 1989)^(Cresswell 2021)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ A warehouse or storehouse for goods is from 1795.^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(OED 1989)^(MWU 2024) The earliest depots were military establishments for stores and for assembling recruits:^(Cresswell 2021) a fort for stores and ammunition, and the part of a regiment that stays at home, are from 1798,^(OED 1989)^(Etymonline) and a place for holding prisoners of war from 1806.^(OED 1989) A railway station, in American English, is attested by 1842.^(Etymonline) In physiology a depot is a site where a substance such as fat accumulates (1835–6).^(OED 1989)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1794 – the act of depositing.^(Barnhart 1988)^(OED 1989)

+ * 1795 – a warehouse.^(Barnhart 1988)^(OED 1989)

+ * 1798 – a military depot.^(OED 1989)^(Etymonline)

+ * 1806 – a prisoner-of-war depot.^(OED 1989)

+ * by 1842 – a railway station (US).^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Modern meaning==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[warehouse]] or storehouse.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # ''(military)'' A store for supplies, or a station for assembling and training recruits.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # ''(chiefly British)'' A building where buses or railway engines are kept and serviced.^(Collins 2023)

+ # ''(US, Canada)'' A bus or railway [[station]].^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

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+ ===Adjective===

+ # ''(medicine)'' Of a drug or dose, designed to be released gradually in the body.^(Collins 2023)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[subdepot]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[deposit]]

+ * [[entrepot]]

+ * [[posit]]

+ * [[position]]

+ * [[reposit]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}