deesse

deesse is a Latin form of desum, meaning “be lacking, fail (+dat.)”. It is the present active infinitive.

Found 173 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 4.30.1: … , qui post proelium ad Caesarem convenerant, inter se conlocuti, cum et equites et naves et frumentum Romanis deesse intellegerent et paucitatem militum ex castrorum exiguitate cognoscerent, quae hoc erant etiam angustiora quo …

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.