depositum Latin · revision 7781

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''dēpositum''' ''n'' (genitive dēpositī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is the neuter of [[dēpositus]], the past participle of [[dēpōnō]] “to put down, deposit”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline) Isidore defines it as a pledge entrusted for a time, as if ⟨diū positum⟩ “placed for long”.^(Isidore)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Gaffiot's earliest citations are from Cicero, of returning a deposit.^(Gaffiot 2016) Köbler dates Cicero 81–43 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant money or goods placed in another's keeping, a deposit, trust, as Cicero's ''reddere dēpositum'' “to return a deposit”.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) In Quintilian it meant the contract governing a deposit, ''dēpositī agere'' to sue for breach of trust.^(OLD 2012)

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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant a deposit, security.^(Stelten 1995) Medieval Latin used it for a church treasure and a temporary commission.^(Niermeyer 1976) French ''dépôt'' comes from it, and [[en|deposit]] came in the 1620s, first “a pledge”.^(Köbler 2010)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of a deposit.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian uses it of a breach of trust.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 560–636 AD – Isidore defines it.^(Isidore)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1620s – English ''deposit'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|deposit]], trust.^(OLD 2012)

+ # A contract of deposit, ''dēpositī agere'', to sue for breach of trust.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A church treasure.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[dēpositārius]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[dēpōnō]]

+ * [[en|deposit]]

+ * [[en|depot]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}