deficientium
Dictionary entries
- Entry →deficientia, deficientiae:
Feminine · Noun · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Very Rare
- Dictionary:
- Lewis & Short
- Age:
- Late
want, wanting;
gen. pl. - 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;
gen. pl. pres. act. part.
Examples
- A
Liber II
Aulus Gellius
"...adeo parvi fecit rationes veras solis et lunae deficientium vel scire vel dicere. XXIX. Apologus Aesopi Phrygis memoratu..." - M
II
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...largus ille sanguis circa tuos duratur artus, stringeris deficientium rigore membrorum; non moveris, non expavescis, sed dormis..."
