depot

See also: Depot, dépot, and dépôt

English

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

Alternative forms

• dépôt (rare)

Etymology

From French dépôt, from Old French depost, from Medieval Latin dēpositum, from Latin, participle of dēpōnō, dēpōnere. Doublet of deposit.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdɛpəʊ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈdiːpoʊ/, (military) /ˈdɛpoʊ/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈdepɐʉ/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɛpəʊ

Noun

depot (plural depots)

1. A storage facility, in particular, a warehouse.
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2. A storage space for public transport and other vehicles where they can be maintained and from which they are dispatched for service.

   Coordinate term: truckyard

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

Derived terms

• accountable depot
• dumpling-depot
• motive power depot
• NADEP
• nondepot
• replacement depot
• repo depot
• sub-depot, subdepot
• supply depot
• Susquehanna Depot

 

Related terms

• entrepôt (entrepot)

Translations

warehouse or similar storage facility

• Arabic: مَخْزَن m (maḵzan), مُسْتَوْدَع m (mustawdaʕ)
• Bulgarian: склад (bg) m (sklad)
• Catalan: dipòsit (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 倉庫／仓库 (zh) (cāngkù)

• Czech: depo (cs) n
• 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
• Indonesian: depot (id)
• Italian: deposito (it) m, magazzino (it) m, rimessa (it) f
• Japanese: 倉庫 (ja) (そうこ, sōko)
• Korean: 창고(倉庫) (ko) (changgo)
• Macedonian: склад m (sklad), скла́диште n (skládište), депо́ n (depó)
• Malay: depoh
• Manx: ard-hie m
• Maori: kōpapa, taupuni
• Polish: hurtownia (pl) f, magazyn (pl) m, skład (pl) m, składnica (pl) f
• Portuguese: depósito (pt) m
• Russian: ба́за (ru) f (báza), пакга́уз (ru) m (pakgáuz), склад (ru) m (sklad), храни́лище (ru) n (xranílišče)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: депо m

  Roman: depo (sh) m

• Slovak: depo n
• Spanish: depósito (es) m
• Turkish: depo (tr)
• Vietnamese: kho chứa, kho hàng

bus or railway station

• Bulgarian: га́ра (bg) f (gára)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 車站／车站 (zh) (chēzhàn)

• Finnish: asema (fi)
• French: dépôt (fr) m
• Italian: deposito (it) m, deposito ferroviario m
• Japanese: 駅 (ja) (えき, eki)
• Maori: teihana, taupuni
• Plautdietsch: Stazion f
• 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
• 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)
• Vietnamese: kho (vi)

card games — see tableau

Anagrams

• PEDOT, opted, poted, toped

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

Dutch

Alternative forms

• depôt (obsolete)

Etymology

Either from Middle Dutch depoost, from Middle French deposte, from Latin dēpositus, with adaptation of the spelling and pronunciation to Modern French dépôt, or borrowed anew from French dépôt, from the same Middle French word.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /deːˈpoː/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: de‧pot
• Rhymes: -oː

Noun

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

1. a depot, a storage facility

Descendants

• Petjo: depot
• → Caribbean Javanese: dhépo, ndhépo

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch depot, either from French dépôt or Middle French deposte, from Latin dēpositus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈd̪epɔt̪̚]
• Hyphenation: dé‧pot

Noun

depot (plural depot-depot, first-person possessive depotku, second-person possessive depotmu, third-person possessive depotnya)

1. depot: a storage facility, in particular, a warehouse.
2. small house for trading.
3. alternative spelling of depo (“motive power depot, traction maintenance depot, railway depot”).

Derived terms

• depot logistik

 

Further reading

• “depot” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.