deficite
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. imp. 2nd
Examples
Liber V
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...inportare pericli, nec porro natura loci spatiumque profundi deficit, exspargi quo possint moenia mundi, aut alia quavis possunt..."Liber III
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...quando hominem totum magis ac magis undique sensus deficit et vitae minus et minus undique restat. Et quoniam..."Satura VII
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...statua meditatur proelia lusca. sic Pedo conturbat, Matho deficit, exitus hic est Tongilii, magno cum rhinocerote lauari..."Libri XIV-XV
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...perrumpenda caligo est et quorum visus in proximo deficit, singula quaeque ostendi facilius possunt, universi nondum capacibus. Faciam..."Liber V
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...quae ad arma ab aratro transferuntur: in primo deficit pulvere ille unctus et nitidus. Severior loci disciplina firmat..."Liber VII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...omnium uultus in caelo est. Sol spectatorem, nisi deficit, non habet; nemo obseruat lunam nisi laborantem: tunc urbes..."Liber III
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...mireris, quod, cum uenti totum aera impellant, non deficit spiritus sed per dies noctesque aequaliter fluit..."Liber IX
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...breuis unda superne innatat et late periturum deficit aequor. ut primum remis actum mare propulit omne classis onus..."