Latin

Verb

dēpōnō ‎(present infinitive dēpōnere, perfect active dēposuī, supine dēpositum); third conjugation

1. I lay, set, put or place aside or away; deposit.
2. I resign, get rid of, give up.
3. I wager, stake, bet.
4. I entrust, commit to, deposit.
5. (from an office) I depose.

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References

• depono in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• depono in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “depono”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to lay aside one's differences: inimicitias deponere
    
  • to amend, correct one's mistake: errorem deponere, corrigere
    
  • to let a plan fall through: consilium abicere or deponere
    
  • to picture to oneself again: memoriam alicuius rei repraesentare (opp. memoriam alicuius rei deponere, abicere)
    
  • to banish grief: dolorem abicere, deponere, depellere
    
  • to lay aside one's grief: luctum deponere (Phil. 14. 13. 34)
    
  • to give up hoping: spem abicere, deponere
    
  • to lay down one's power: imperium deponere (Rep. 2. 12. 23)
    
  • to give up, lay down office (usually at the end of one's term of office): deponere magistratum
    
  • to pile arms (cf. sect. XII. 3, note vestem deponere...): arma ponere (not deponere)