deficimus
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;
pl. pres. act. ind. 1st
Examples
Liber XX
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...singuliconferant. Non ille gradus lassitudinem facit in quo deficimus, sed illeprofitetur; ad mortem dies extremus peruenit, accedit omnis..."XII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...perdidisses. angustos humani spiritus terminos fames fecit. morimur, deficimus; festina misericors, omnes excipe auras; etiamsi tota secundis flatibus..."Aeneid XI
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...omnis tempestas), cur indecores in limine primo deficimus? cur ante tubam tremor occupat artus? multa dies variique labor..."