Etymology

depose

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Today it means: To put down; to lay down; to deposit; to lay aside; to put away. Full definition →

Old French deposer
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  1. Old French · derived fromdeposer
  2. English todaydepose

Recorded since c.1300, from Middle English, from Old French deposer, from de- (“down”) + poser (“to put, place”). Deposition (1494 in the legal sense) belongs to deposit, but that related word and depose became thoroughly confused.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.