defecit

defecit is a Latin form of deficio, meaning “fail, run out; fall short, be lacking; revolt from, desert”. It is the 3rd person singular perfect active indicative.

Found 34 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 6.16.5: Supplicia eorum qui in furto aut in latrocinio aut aliqua noxia sint comprehensi gratiora dis immortalibus esse arbitrantur; sed, cum eius generis copia defecit, etiam ad innocentium supplicia descendunt.

All forms of deficio (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.