![dependent clause subordinate clause deponent verb [Lat. deponere ‘to put down, abandon’]](https://images.tandf.co.uk/common/jackets/crclarge/978041520/9780415203197.jpg "dependent clause subordinate clause deponent verb [Lat. deponere ‘to put down, abandon’]")
ABSTRACT
Group of verbs in Latin which only occur in the passive form but have ‘given up’ (lit. ‘deposed’) their passive meaning and have only active meaning: hortari ‘exhort,’ loqui ‘talk,’ pati ‘suffer.’ Deponent verbs are remnants of the middle voice, which is preserved in Greek.
