deficientem
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;
acc. sg. pres. act. part.
Examples
Liber IV
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...quocumque corporis habitu fortem laetumque nec deficientem quamvis deficiatur. Magnus gubernator et scisso navigat velo et, si exarmavit..."Divus Iulius
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE VITIS CAESARUM
"...ferret saepe obtrectatorum iocis obnoxiam expertus. Ideoque et deficientem capillum revocare a vertice adsueverat et ex omnibus decretis..."XIX
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...adnisus, antequam mentiretur, occidi. Misera temporis illius recordatio! deficientem in manibus meis filium vidi, aspexi ora pallentia, frigidos..."VII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...veni.~ vultis percussorem invadam, vultis fugientem sequar? interim deficientem quis excipiet, cui se morientis inponet infirmitas? scis profecto..."Agricola
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from Minor Works
"...parentis erepti auget maestitiam, quod adsidere valetudini, fovere deficientem, satiari vultu complexuque non contigit. Excepissemus certe mandata vocesque..."