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deficiat

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

Found 26 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.5.72: … sum habiturus de istius crudelitate et de civium Romanorum indignissima morte non modo vires verum etiam vita deficiat, id mihi praeclarum et iucundum putem.

Lucan, Civil War 9.401: Deficiat; si quo fuerit discrimine notum,

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.