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deerunt

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

Found 29 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.3.207: … erit adductus in iudicium, cum manifestis in flagitiis tenebitur, alios eadem fecisse dicet, illi exempla non deerunt: rei publicae salus deerit, si improborum exemplis improbi iudicio ac periculo liberabuntur.

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.