English → Latin
“deposit” in Latin
pōnōto place; to put; to lay; to ordain; to appoint; to make (something); to set up; to pitch (camp)dēpōnōto lay, set, put or place aside or away; deposit; to resign, get rid of, give up; to wager, stake, betscrobisditch, trench; gravesulcusA furrow made by a plow.; Ploughing.; A long, narrow trench; a ditch.sēpsA kind of snake, whose bite occasioned putrefaction; An insect, perhaps the woodlouse or centipedepignuspledge, mortgage; hostage; wager, stakearrhabōmoney given to ratify a contract; a deposit or pledgearrhadeposit, down payment; pledgeoppignerōto pledge; to pawn
The English word deposit itself goes back to Latin pōnō, through depositus.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
deposit v.
RPOPR., ponere; deponere (to lay down; also to deposit or give into the keeping of anybody): to deposit a burden, onus deponere: to deposit in the earth, aliquid deponere defossa terra (Hor.): in a ditch, trench, scrobe, sulco, etc., aliquid deponere: to deposit eggs, ova ponere (e.g., sepibus, Verg.): cf., deponere in aliquo loco and in aliquem locum, both classical.
To deposit with a view to preservation, deponere: to deposit money, ponere pecuniam: to deposit anything with anybody, deponere aliquid apud aliquem: to deposit in a temple, ponere in templo (as a consecrated gift); referre in templum (to deposit for the sake of safe custody): in the treasury (money), in aerarium or in publicum referre; in thesaurum referre (of the foregoing verbs the two first refer to the magistrate, who deposits the money received by him in charge for the state, or to the general who deposits the money taken as booty, in the public treasury; Vid: Cic., Agr., 2, 27, 72: Nep., Timoth., 1, 2; the last is in Liv., 29, 18; especially in reference to the money collected, and deposited in the treasury. In aerarium deferre has a totally different meaning, and refers to what is contributed by individuals, and deposited in the treasury for the use of the state; Vid: Liv., 5, 25; 40, 41): to deposit the money of minors in the treasury (by the state), pecunias pupillares in fide publica deponere: to deposit or pay in, tradere: to deposit for the sake of being kept, servandum dare: to deposit as a pledge; Vid: PLEDGE.
deposit
depositum: *pecuniae apud aliquem depositae: fidei commissum (property of any sort, which anybody is under an obligation to restore to a third party): a deposit or pledge, pignus (pignus of res mobiles which are actually deposited, hypotheca of res immobiles: “res quae sine traditione nuda conventione tenetur,” Justinus, Inst., 4, 6, 7): arrhabo; arrha (a deposit or earnest- money): to give a deposit or pledge, dare pignus: to give anything as a deposit or pledge, aliquid pignerare or oppignerare; aliquid pignori dare, or obligare, or opponere; fiduciarium dare aliquid: to receive anything as a deposit, aliquid pignori accipere: to give anything as a deposit to anybody, apud aliquem pignori ponere aliquid: to restore a deposit, reddere depositum: for other meanings, Vid. PLEDGE, MORTGAGE.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for deposit?
- The usual Latin words for “deposit” are pōnō, dēpōnō, scrobis; also sulcus, sēps, pignus. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.