defic
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. pres. act. imp. 2nd
Examples
Liber Quartus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...matri. surge age et in duris haud umquam defice, caelo mox aderis teque astra ferent: tu semper amoris..."Liber Secundus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...gens quaeritis amnem. vasta super tellus, longum (ne defice coeptis!) aequor et ipse procul, verum dabit ostia, Phasis..."Aeneid VI
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...dives opacat ramus humum. tuque, o, dubiis ne defice rebus, diva parens.' sic effatus vestigia pressit observans quae..."