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..."- M
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..." - P
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..." - M
Liber Secundus
Marcus Tullius Cicero from De Finibus
"...accedam ad omnia tua, Torquate, nisi memoria forte defecerit. [45] Honestum igitur id intellegimus, quod tale..." - T
Liber XXIII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...totam Italiam esse, primum, ecquis Latini nominis populus defecerit ad nos, deinde, ecquis homo ex quinque et triginta..." - T
Liber VIII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...restare nec eam ipsam satis validam, quando Lucanus defecerit; quem revocari adhuc impellique ad abolendam societatem Romanam posse..."