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
Liber II
Aulus Gellius
"...adeo parvi fecit rationes veras solis et lunae deficientium vel scire vel dicere. XXIX. Apologus Aesopi Phrygis memoratu..."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..."
