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defuerunt

defuerunt is a Latin form of desum, meaning “be lacking, fail (+dat.)”. It is the 3rd person plural perfect active indicative.

Found 37 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Civili 3.93: … pila miserunt celeriterque, ut erat praeceptum a Caesare, gladios strinxerunt. Neque vero Pompeiani huic rei defuerunt. Nam et tela missa exceperunt et impetum legionum tulerunt et ordines suos servarunt pilisque missis ad gladi …

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.