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
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..."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..."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..."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..."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..."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..."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..."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..."
