deerant

deerant is a Latin form of desum, meaning “be lacking, fail (+dat.)”. It is the 3rd person plural imperfect active indicative.

Found 59 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 4.29.4: Neque enim naves erant aliae quibus reportari possent, et omnia deerant quae ad reficiendas naves erant usui, et, quod omnibus constabat hiemari in Gallia oportere, frumentum in his locis in hiemem provisum non erat.

Pseudo-Caesar, De Bello Alexandrino 13: … ae navalibus, quibus multis annis ad navigandum non erant usi: has reficiebant, illas Alexandream revocabant. Deerant remi: porticus, gymnasia, publica aedificia detegebant, asseres remorum usum obtinebant; aliud naturalis soll …

All forms of desum (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.