Dictionaries › Catalan

deposar

Pronunciation: [də.puˈza]

“deposar” is a Catalan word. Its 7 meanings in English:

verb

  1. to take off (clothes)
  2. to give up, abandon
  3. to depose, dethrone
  4. to take down, bring down
  5. to drip, drop
  6. to poop, to poo
  7. to declare

In Catalan

  1. Obligar algú a abandonar el seu càrrec.
  2. Posar una cosa que estava en un lloc alt, en un lloc baix.
  3. Deixar reposar una dissolució perquè el solut baixi cap al fons del recipient.
  4. Declarar en judici.
  5. Abandonar una actitud.

Etymology

From Latin dēpōnere, with a change to the first conjugation. The base being changed to depos- seems to have been based on that verb's preterite, dēposuī, dēposuisse.

Keep exploring: in the interactive dictionary every word of a definition is a link. Open “deposar” there

More Catalan words

About this dictionary

The Catalan dictionary on Glottosphere has 49,075 entries with a page. Browse the Catalan dictionary.

Definitions are from Wiktionary, extracted by Kaikki.org, and are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence. Definitions in Catalan are from the Catalan Wiktionary, under the same licence.