Latin

Verb

dēficiō ‎(present infinitive dēficere, perfect active dēfēcī, supine dēfectum); third conjugation iō-variant

1. I withdraw
2. I forsake, desert or abandon
3. (of persons) I fail, disappoint or let down
4. (of things) I fall short, I am absent, I run out
5. I have shortcomings

Inflection

Descendants

• English: defect

References

• deficio in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• deficio in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “deficio”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the sun, moon, is eclipsed: sol (luna) deficit, obscuratur
    
  • to lose strength: vires aliquem deficiunt
    
  • to lose courage; to despair: animo cadere, deficere
    
  • to deviate from the path of virtue: a virtute discedere or deficere
    
  • a man's credit begins to go down: fides aliquem deficere coepit
    
  • to betray the interests of the state: a re publica deficere