defuit

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

Found 154 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 4.26.5: Nostri, simul in arido constiterunt, suis omnibus consecutis, in hostes impetum fecerunt atque eos in fugam dederunt; neque longius prosequi potuerunt, quod equites cursum tenere atque insulam capere non potuerant. Hoc unum ad pristinam fortunam Caesari defuit.

Ovid, Ars Amatoria 3.42: Defuit ars vobis; arte perennat amor.

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.