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defuerit

defuerit is a Latin form of desum, meaning “be lacking, fail (+dat.)”. It is the 3rd person singular future perfect active indicative or 3rd person singular perfect active subjunctive.

Found 26 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 2.21.5: Temporis tanta fuit exiguitas hostiumque tam paratus ad dimicandum animus ut non modo ad insignia accommodanda sed etiam ad galeas induendas scutisque tegimenta detrahenda tempus defuerit.

Martial, Epigrammata 14.22.2: Defuerit, dentes pinna levare potest.

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.