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
Phormio
Publius Terentius Afer (Terence)
"...insidiis hic ero succenturiatu', siquid deficias. {Ph.} age. 230 ACTVS II Demipho Phaedria Geta {De.} Itane tandem uxorem..."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..."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..."