different between arsenal vs depot

English

Etymology

From Italian arsenale, also French arsenal, from Arabic ???? ???????????? (d?r a?-?in??a, “manufacturing shop”); ????? (d?r) + ????????? (?in??a).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???(?)s?n?l/, /???(?)sn?l/

Noun

arsenal (plural arsenals)

1. A military establishment for the storing, development, manufacturing, testing, or repairing of arms, ammunition, and other war materiel; an armoury.
2. A stock of weapons, especially all the weapons that a nation possesses.
3. A store or supply of anything.
4. Any supply of aid collected to prepare a person or army for hardship

   He arrived with a large arsenal of cleansers and tools, and got right to work.

   • Elyse Saugstad, a professional skier, wore a backpack equipped with an air bag, a relatively new and expensive part of the arsenal that backcountry users increasingly carry to ease their minds and increase survival odds in case of an avalanche.

Derived terms

• arsenal of democracy

Translations

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /??.s??nal/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?r.s??nal/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /a?.se?nal/

Noun

arsenal m (plural arsenals)

1. arsenal (stock of weapons)
2. arsenal (store or supply of anything)

Further reading

• “arsenal” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?.s?.nal/

Noun

arsenal m (plural arsenaux)

1. (military, nautical) arsenal

Further reading

• “arsenal” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /a?s??na?/
• Hyphenation: ar?se?nal

Noun

arsenal m (plural arsenais)

1. arsenal (military establishment)

Romanian

Etymology

From French arsenal

Noun

arsenal n (plural arsenale)

1. arsenal, armoury

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ars?na?l/
• Hyphenation: ar?se?nal

Noun

arsèn?l m (Cyrillic spelling ????????)

1. arsenal

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Arabic ???? ???????????? (d?r a?-?in??a, “industry house”). Compare dársena.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?se?nal/, [a?.se?nal]
• Hyphenation: ar?se?nal

Noun

arsenal m (plural arsenales)

1. arsenal (stock of weapons)
2. arsenal (store or supply of anything)
3. dockyard

Further reading

• “arsenal” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Alternative forms

• dépôt (rare)

Etymology

From French dépôt, from Old French depost, from Medieval Latin d?positum, from Latin, participle of d?p?n?, d?p?nere. Doublet of deposit.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?d?p??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?di?po?/
  • IPA^(key): (military) /?d?po?/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /?dep??/
• Rhymes: -?p??

Noun

depot (plural depots)

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

Derived terms

• motive power depot
• NADEP

Translations

Anagrams

• PEDOT, opted, poted, toped

Danish

Etymology

From French dépôt.

Noun

depot n (singular definite depotet, plural indefinite depoter)

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Declension

Further reading

• “depot” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Alternative forms

• (obsolete) depôt

Etymology

Either from Middle Dutch depoost, from Middle French deposte, from Latin d?positus, 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): /de??po?/
• Hyphenation: de?pot
• Rhymes: -o?

Noun

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

1. a depot, a storage facility

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch depot, either from French dépôt or Middle French deposte, from Latin d?positus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?d?ep?t??]
• 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

Further reading

• “depot” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.