deficitis
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. 2nd
Examples
Liber Quartus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...matri. surge age et in duris haud umquam defice, caelo mox aderis teque astra ferent: tu semper amoris..."Liber Secundus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...gens quaeritis amnem. vasta super tellus, longum (ne defice coeptis!) aequor et ipse procul, verum dabit ostia, Phasis..."- P
Aeneid VI
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...dives opacat ramus humum. tuque, o, dubiis ne defice rebus, diva parens.' sic effatus vestigia pressit observans quae..."