Deponent

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: de=po=nent

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Deponent, adj. & n.
--adj. Gram. (of a verb, esp. in Latin or Greek) passive or middle in form but active in meaning.
--n.
1 Gram. a deponent verb.
2 Law a a person making a deposition under oath. b a witness giving written testimony for use in court etc.

Etymology

L deponere (as DE-, ponere posit- place): adj. from the notion that the verb had laid aside the passive sense

ROGET THESAURUS

Deponent

Evidence

N evidence, facts, premises, data, praecognita, grounds, indication, criterion, testimony, testification, expert testimony, attestation, deposition, examination, admission, authority, warrant, credential, diploma, voucher, certificate, doquet, docket, testamur, record, document, pi ce justificative, deed, warranty, signature, seal, exhibit, material evidence, objective evidence, witness, indicator, hostile witness, eyewitness, earwitness, material witness, state's evidence, deponent, sponsor, cojuror, oral evidence, documentary evidence, hearsay evidence, external evidence, extrinsic evidence, internal evidence, intrinsic evidence, circumstantial evidence, cumulative evidence, ex parte evidence, presumptive evidence, collateral evidence, constructive evidence, proof, evidence in chief, secondary evidence, confirmation, corroboration, support, ratification, authentication, compurgation, wager of law, comprobation, citation, reference, legal research, literature search (experiment), showing, indicative, indicatory, deducible, grounded on, founded on, based on, corroborative, confirmatory, by inference, according to, witness, a fortiori, still more, still less, raison de plus, in corroboration, of, valeat quantum, under seal, under one's hand and seal, dictum de dicto, mise en evidence.