defectis
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;
abl. pl. perf. pass. part.dat. pl. perf. pass. part. - Entry →defectus, defecta -um, defectior -or -us, defectissimus -a -um:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
tired, enfeebled, worn out; faulty, defective; reduced in size, smaller;
abl. pl. (all)dat. pl. (all) - Entry →defectus, defecti:
Masculine · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Lesser
- Dictionary:
- Lewis & Short
the_weak (pl.);
abl. pl.dat. pl.loc. pl.
Examples
Liber III
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...artusmembraque contendit toto, quicumque manebat,sanguine et hostilem defectis robore neruis 625insiluit solo nociturus pondere puppem.strage uirum cumulata..."Liber III
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...obsessi et inpares et aqua ciboque defecti de facienda ad hostem deditione deliberent et dicatur "necesse est"; nempe..."
