defecimus
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;
pl. perf. act. ind. 1st
Examples
- P
Phormio
Publius Terentius Afer (Terence)
"...ipsum quaerebam. {Ge.} sed ea causa nihilo mage defecimus. {An.} loquere obsecro, quonam in loco sunt..." - L
Liber XVI
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...ipsi faciamus animose; simus inter exempla. Quare defecimus? quare desperamus? Quidquid fieri potuit potest, nos modo purgemus animum..." - T
Liber XXV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...quorum princeps 'neque primo' inquit 'Syracusani a uobis defecimus sed Hieronymus, nequaquam tam in uos impius quam..." - T
Liber XXIII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...adfero, pater, quo non veniam solum peccati, quod defecimus ad Hannibalem, impetraturi ab Romanis sed in multo maiore..."