depot

See also: Depot, dépot, and dépôt

English

An old railroad depot (sense 2) at Rolling Fork, Mississippi, USA

Etymology

From French dépôt, from Old French depost, from , from Latin, participle of dēpōnō, dēpōnere.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɛpəʊ/
• IPA^(key): /ˈdiːpoʊ/
• IPA^(key): /ˈdɛpoʊ/ (military)
• IPA^(key): /ˈdepɐʉ/

  Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɛpəʊ

Noun

depot (plural depots)

1. A storage facility, in particular, a warehouse.
   • 2013 May-June, Charles T. Ambrose, “Alzheimer’s Disease”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 200:

     Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems—surgical foam, a thermal gel depot, a microcapsule or biodegradable polymer beads.

2. (US) A bus station or railway station.
3. (military) A place where recruits are assembled before being sent to active units.
4. (military) A place for the storage, servicing or upgrade of military hardware.
5. (military) The portion of a regiment that remains at home when the rest go on foreign service.
6. (card games) The tableau; the area where cards can be arranged in solitaire or patience games.

Translations

warehouse or similar storage facility

• Arabic: مستودع m (mustawdaʿ)
• Bulgarian: склад (bg) m (sklad)
• Catalan: dipòsit (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 倉庫／仓库 (zh) (cāngkù), 仓库 (zh) (cāngkù)

• Dutch: opslagplaats (nl) m or f
• Faroese: goymsla f
• Finnish: varasto (fi) (for goods); varikko (fi) (for vehicles)
• French: dépôt (fr)
• German: Depot (de) n, Lager (de) n, Speicherraum m
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• Italian: deposito (it) m, magazzino (it) m, rimessa (it) f
• Japanese: 倉庫 (ja) (そうこ, sōko)
• Korean: 창고 (ko) (changgo)
• Manx: ard-hie m
• Maori: kōpapa, taupuni
• Polish: skład (pl) m, hurtownia (pl) f, magazyn (pl) m
• Portuguese: depósito (pt) m
• Russian: склад (ru) m (sklad), ба́за (ru) f (báza), храни́лище (ru) n (xranílišče)
• Turkish: depo (tr)
• Vietnamese: kho chứa, kho hàng

bus or railway station

• Bulgarian: гара (bg) f (gara)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 車站／车站 (zh) (chēzhàn), 车站 (zh) (chēzhàn)

• Finnish: asema (fi)
• French: dépôt (fr) m
• Italian: deposito (it) m, deposito ferroviario m
• Japanese: 駅 (ja) (えき, eki)
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• Maori: teihana, taupuni
• Polish: stacja (pl) f
• Portuguese: estação (pt) f
• Russian: автовокза́л (ru) m (avtovokzál), депо́ (ru) n (dɛpó) (place for accommodating buses or trains), ста́нция (ru) f (stáncija), автоста́нция (ru) f (avtostáncija)
• Spanish: estación (es) m
• Vietnamese: bến xe (vi), bến tàu (vi)

military: place where recruits are assembled

• Finnish: kutsuntapaikka
• Maori: taupuni
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Russian: вое́нный ла́герь m (vojénnyj lágerʹ), уче́бная часть f (učébnaja častʹ), уче́бно-запасна́я во́инская часть f (učébno-zapasnája vóinskaja častʹ)
• Vietnamese: kho (vi)

military: storage

• Finnish: varikko (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Vietnamese: kho (vi)

card games — see tableau

Anagrams

• PEDOT, opted, poted, toped

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Danish

Etymology

From French dépôt.

Noun

depot n (singular definite depotet, plural indefinite depoter)

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Declension

Declension of depot

neuter gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	depot	depotet	depoter	depoterne
genitive	depots	depotets	depoters	depoternes

Further reading

• “depot” in Den Danske Ordbog

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Dutch

Etymology

From French dépôt.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: de‧pot

Noun

depot f or m (plural depots, diminutive depotje n)

1. a depot, a storage warehouse
2. a compound