dépôt French · revision 16099

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=1323, depost|origins=la dēpōnō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /de.po/^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Louisiana): [de.po]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Louisiana): [di.po]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''dépôt''' ''m'' (plural dépôts)^(Wiktionary)

+ ''Depost'' (1323), ''dépôt'' from the 17th century.^(TLFi)^(GLLF 1989)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is borrowed from legal [[la|dēpositum|t=deposit, consignment]],^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(Grand Robert 2005)^(FEW|3, 45a) the neuter past participle used as a noun of [[la|dēpōnō|alt=dēpōnere|t=to put down, lay aside]], from “dē-” and [[la|pōnō|alt=pōnere|t=to put]].^(Grand Robert 2005)^(Littré 1873) Compare [[pro|deposit]], [[es|depósito]] and [[it|deposito]].^(Littré 1873)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ A document of 1323 has ''recevoir en depost'', and ''avoir en depost'' (before 1325) translates Latin ''in depositum habere''.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It entered many legal phrases, the latest being ''dépôt légal'' and ''dépôt de bilan'' (late 18th century).^(DHLF 1992) From the 14th century it was the noun of action of ''déposer'' and, by metonymy, the thing deposited (Oresme, 1370: ''Se un rent à l'autre son gage ou son depost''), then the public place where things are left (Furetière, 1690), with military and transport uses, and a temporary lock-up (1814).^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(Littré 1873) From the late 17th century it was also a deposit settling at the bottom of a liquid or vessel (Thomas Corneille, 1694), in geology, physics and medicine.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(GLLF 1989) English ''depot'' was borrowed in 1795.^(Etymonline) Louisiana French uses it for a wharf or a railway station.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1323 – ''Recevoir en depost''.^(TLFi)

+ * 1370 – The act; the thing deposited, in Oresme.^(TLFi)

+ * 1690 – A public depot, in Furetière.^(TLFi)

+ * 1694 – A sediment, in Thomas Corneille.^(TLFi)

+ * Late 18th century – ''Dépôt légal'', ''dépôt de bilan''.^(DHLF 1992)

+ * 1795 – English ''depot''.^(Etymonline)

+ * 1814 – A police lock-up.^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # Depositing, leaving: ''le dépôt d'une gerbe'', ''dépôt d'un testament chez le notaire''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Larousse)

+ # A [[m|en|deposit]] (of money, valuables): ''faire un dépôt'', ''dépôt bancaire''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A [[m|en|depot]], warehouse, store: ''dépôt de bus'', ''dépôt d'ordures''.^(Wiktionary)^(Larousse)

+ # A deposit, sediment: ''un dépôt calcaire''.^(Wiktionary)^(GLLF 1989)

+ # ''(law)'' Filing: ''dépôt de plainte'', ''dépôt légal'', ''dépôt de bilan'': filing for bankruptcy.^(Wiktionary)^(Petit Robert 2007)

+ # A police lock-up.^(GLLF 1989)^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[déposer]]

+ * [[dépositaire]]

+ * [[poser]]

+ * [[la|dēpositum]]

+ * [[en|depot]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}