deficientes
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. pl. pres. act. part.nom. pl. pres. act. part.voc. pl. pres. act. part.
Examples
Liber XX
Aulus Gellius
"...Eadem autem ipsa, quae crescente luna gliscunt, deficiente contra defiunt. VI. Aelurorum quoque oculi ad easdem vices lunae..."Satura XI
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...tibi gobio tantum in loculis. quis enim te deficiente crumina et crescente gula manet exitus, aere paterno..."Liber VII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...cometas non uidemus, quia obscurantur radiis solis: quo deficiente quondam cometen apparuisse, quem sol uicinus obtexerat, Posidonius tradit..."Liber III
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...Rubri maris litore signa fixisse nec, deficiente ad iniurias terra, errasse in oceano ignota quaerentem, sed animo omne..."[Proverbs]
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger)
"...avaritia senilis. Quid enim stultius est, quam via deficiente viaticum augere? 19. Omnes infantes terra nudos excipit..."SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...dividere cum fratre nolito." <. . .> [XII] Veniebamus in forum deficiente iam die, in quo notavimus frequentiam rerum venalium..."Divus Claudius
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE VITIS CAESARUM
"...pertinacius arderent, in diribitorio duabus noctibus mansit ac deficiente militum ac familiarum turba auxilio plebem per magistratus..."Gaius
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE VITIS CAESARUM
"...aede Martis ac frequente senatu consulibus traderent. Mox deficiente belli materia paucos de custodia Germanos traici occulique trans..."
