deficias
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. subj. 2nd
Examples
- P
Phormio
Publius Terentius Afer (Terence)
"...insidiis hic ero succenturiatu', siquid deficias. {Ph.} age. 230 ACTVS II Demipho Phaedria Geta {De.} Itane tandem uxorem..." - L
Liber II
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE BENEFICIIS
"...despondeas animum, ne laborum ac longae seruitutis expectatione deficias; non differo te, de praesentibus fiat. Numquam eris gratus..." - M
VIII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...sanabitur frater. non est, quod exanimeris metu, dolore deficias. cave viscera exclamatione ne lasses, anhelitu gemituque concutias..."