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191. More than half of all deponents are of the First Conjugation, and all of these are regular. The following deponents are irregular:—
  1. adsentior , -īrī, adsēnsus, assent.
  2. apīscor , (-ip-), -ī, aptus (-eptus), get.
  3. dēfetīscor, -ī, -fessus, faint.
  4. expergīscor , -ī, -perrēctus, rouse.
  5. experior , -īrī, expertus, try.
  6. fateor , -ērī, fassus, confess.
  7. fruor, -ī, frūctus ( fruitus ), enjoy.
  8. fungor , -ī, fūnctus, fulfil.
  9. gradior (-gredior), -ī, gressus, step.
  10. īrāscor , -ī, īrātus, be angry.
  11. lābor, -ī, lāpsus, fall.
  12. loquor , -ī, locūtus, speak.
  13. mētior , -īrī, mēnsus, measure.
  14. -minīscor, -ī, -mentus, think.
  15. morior , -ī (-īrī), mortuus ( moritūrus ), die.
  16. nancīscor, -ī, nactus ( nānctus ), find.
  17. nāscor , -ī, nātus, be born.
  18. nītor, -ī, nīsus ( nīxus ), strive.
  19. oblīvīscor , -ī, oblītus, forget.
  20. opperior , -īrī, oppertus, await.
  21. ōrdior , -īrī, ōrsus, begin.
  22. orior, -īrī, ortus ( oritūrus ), rise (3d conjugation in most forms).
  23. pacīscor , -ī, pactus, bargain.
  24. patior (-petior), -ī, passus (-pessus), suffer.
  25. -plector, -ī, -plexus, clasp.
  26. proficīscor , -ī, profectus, set out.
  27. queror , -ī, questus, complain.
  28. reor , rērī , ratus, think.
  29. revertor , -ī, reversus, return.
  30. ringor , -ī, rictus, snarl.
  31. sequor , -ī, secūtus, follow.
  32. tueor, -ērī, tuitus ( tūtus ), defend.
  33. ulcīscor , -ī, ultus, avenge.
  34. ūtor , -ī, ūsus, use, employ.

Note.--The deponent comperior, -īrí, compertus , is rarely found for comperiō , -īre. Revertor , until the time of Augustus, had regularly the active forms in the perfect sys tem. revertī . reverteram , etc.

a. The following deponents have no supine stem:—

Note.--Deponents are really passive (or middle) verbs whose active voice has disappeared. There is hardly one that does not show signs of having been used in the active at some period of the language.

dēvertor , -tī, turn aside (to lodge). medeor , -ērī, heal.
diffiteor , -ērī, deny. reminīscor , -ī, call to mind.
fatīscor , -ī, gape. vescor , -ī, feed upon.
līquor, -ī, melt (intrans.).

Semi-Deponents

Ginn and Company, 1903.

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