deficiat
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. 3rd
Examples
- M
Liber IX
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...quicumque petentem aestuet, aut equitem peditum praecedere turmas deficiat: siquo fuerit discrimine notum dux an miles eam. serpens..." - D
Satura III
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...vinclis ferri modus, ut timeas ne vomer deficiat, ne marra et sarcula desint. felices proavorum atavos, felicia dicas..." - L
Liber VIII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...virtus obstinatissima, Uticensium quoque fides malis fracta deficiat et Scipionem in Africa nominis sui fortuna destituat: olim provisum..." - L
Liber VII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...tantum nouerunt caelum, quae nondum sciunt cur luna deficiat, quare obumbretur: haec apud nos quoque nuper ratio..." - L
Liber III
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...utique miscere; itaque secundis nemo confidat, aduersis nemo deficiat: alternae sunt uices rerum. Quid exultas? Ista, quibus eueheris..." - L
de Clementia
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...inritat. 7. Voluntas oportet ante saeviendi quam causa deficiat; alioqui, quemadmodum praecisae arbores plurimis ramis repullulant et multa..." - L
de Brevitate Vitae
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...debet seruari diligentius quod nescias quando deficiat. Nec est tamen quod putes illos ignorare quam cara..." - M
Liber XI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...receptus concidat sententiam nec eo usque trahatur donec deficiat. Nam et deformis est consumpti illius sonus et respiratio..."
