deficienti
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;
abl. sg. pres. act. part.dat. sg. pres. act. part.
Examples
de Spectaculis
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial) from EPIGRAMMATON LIBRI
"...diffusas ubi porticus explicat umbras, ultima pars aulae deficientis erat. Reddita Roma sibi est et sunt te preside..."Liber III
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...inquis, mullo expirante illis formosius: ipsa colluctatione animae deficientis rubor primum, deinde pallor subfunditur, squamaeque uariantur et incertas..."Liber XI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...CLXXIII. Illa quoque mire facit in peroratione velut deficientis dolore et fatigatione confessio, ut pro eodem Milone..."XII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...decessit. quo vos mitto? ipsam intuemini contionem, unius deficientis speciem tota civitas habet, cavum macie caput et conditos..."Liber VI
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...verba centurio saevitiae plena, tamquam egregium, vocesque deficientis adiecerat, quis primo [alienationem mentis simulans] quasi per dementiam funesta..."Agricola
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from Minor Works
"...sive inquisitio erat. Supremo quidem die momenta ipsa deficientis per dispositos cursores nuntiata constabat, nullo credente sic adcelerari..."Panegyricus
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger)
"...honestiores perfruentur. Ac ne remotus quidem, iamque deficientis affinitatis gradus, a qualibet quantitate Vicesimam inferre cogetur. Statuit enim..."