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..."- L
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..." - M
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..." - M
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..." - P
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..." - P
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..." - G
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..."