defecerit
Dictionary entries
- Entry →deficio, deficere, defeci, defectus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
fail, disappoint, let down; leave without a sufficiency; cease to be available;; (PASS) be left without/wanting, lack; have shortcomings; L:come to nothing;; fail/falter; run short/out; grow weak/faint; come to end; revolt/rebel, defect;; pass away; become extinct, die/fade out; subside/sink; suffer eclipse, wane;
sg. futperf. act. ind. 3rdsg. perf. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
Liber VIII
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...manus repellas et siluam domini focis reserues: si defecerit haec, et ipse lignum es. "Tristis Athenagoras non misit..."Liber VII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...quoque eius qui perit discrimen facit. Interest subito defecerit an longiore valetudine consumptus sit: liberior adhuc in utramque..."Liber IV
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Georgics
"...foribus plenis adpone canistris. Sed siquem proles subito defecerit omnis, nec genus unde novae stirpis revocetur habebit, tempus..."Liber Secundus
Marcus Tullius Cicero from De Finibus
"...accedam ad omnia tua, Torquate, nisi memoria forte defecerit. [45] Honestum igitur id intellegimus, quod tale..."Liber XXIII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...totam Italiam esse, primum, ecquis Latini nominis populus defecerit ad nos, deinde, ecquis homo ex quinque et triginta..."Liber VIII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...restare nec eam ipsam satis validam, quando Lucanus defecerit; quem revocari adhuc impellique ad abolendam societatem Romanam posse..."