deest

deest is a Latin form of deus, meaning “god”.

It can also be a form of desum, “be lacking, fail (+dat.)”. It is the 3rd person singular present active indicative or vocative singular masculine noun.

Found 89 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Civili 2.41: … ordines atque hortari incipit; sed peditatu dumtaxat procul ad speciem utitur, equites in aciem immittit. Non deest negotio Curio suosque hortatur, ut spem omnem in virtute reponant. Ne militibus quidem ut defessis neque equi …

Seneca the Younger, Epistulae 16.100.8: … sunt enim humilia illa sed placida et ad animi tenorem quietum compositumque formata, nec depressa sed plana. Deest illis oratorius vigor stimulique, quos quaeris, et subiti ictus sententiarum. Sed totum corpus videris quam s …

All forms of deus (declension 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.