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Where does “depository” come from?

Depository comes from Latin depositorium, a place where something is deposited, derived from depositum, the past participle of depono, meaning to put down or lay aside, formed from the prefix de- and the root de from Proto-Indo-European de.

depository (English): A place where something is deposited, as for...

Definitions

  1. A place where something is deposited, as for...

Ancestry of “depository”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latindepositorium—
2Latindēpositum—

Words derived from “depository”

  • nondepository
Every word from Latin dēpositum →