defeci
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. perf. act. ind. 1st
Examples
Liber V
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...signanti tabulas, Charine, misi Hyblaeis madidas thymis placentas. Defeci: miserere iam, Charine: signa rarius, aut semel fac illud..."XIX
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...videatur, verumtamen stupore , amentia ; et in silentium orbitate defeci: ablata est mihi omnium verborum fides, omnis sermonis auctoritas..."XVII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...quae certissima est animae laborantis infirmitas, misera felicitate defeci. quem mihi vultum domum reverso, quem suadetis animum..."
