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
- T
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..." - T
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..." - D
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..." - L
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..." - L
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..." - L
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..." - L
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..." - M
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..."
