deficis
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;
sg. pres. act. ind. 2nd
Examples
Liber II
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...triduo legatur? Numquam deliciae supiniores. Lassus tam cito deficis uiator, et cum currere debeas Bouillas, interiungere quaeris..."Libri XVII-XVIII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...tamen, quia aliquis plus habet, tanto tibi videris defici quanto vinceris. Honores iudicabis bonum: male te habebit ille..."de Constantia
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...nocere intendent, tam citra sapientiam omnes eorum impetus deficient quam quae neruo tormentisue in altum exprimuntur, cum extra..."Liber XI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...robusta, si militare iter fascemque et vigilias imperes, deficiant et quaerant unctores suos nudumque sudorem. XXVII. Illa quidem..."Liber II
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...nemo sic in maioribus eminet ut eum minora deficiant: nisi forte Iouem quidem Phidias optime fecit, illa autem..."IX
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...suis; nam et paupertatis est proprium, quando alia deficiant, exerere libertatem et, dum contemptus fama vitatur, potentiores..."In Catilinam II
Marcus Tullius Cicero from Catilinarian Orations
"...modi certamine ac proelio nonne, si hominum studia deficiant, di ipsi inmortales cogant ab his praeclarissimis virtutibus..."Metamorphoses IV
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...serius incidis undis, spectandique mora brumalis porrigis horas; deficis interdum, vitiumque in lumina mentis transit et obscurus mortalia..."
