desint

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

Found 35 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 5.113: … paupertas tolerabilis sit, si liceat quod quibusdam Graecis cotidie, sic caecitas ferri facile possit, si non desint subsidia valetudinum.

Ovid, Amores 3.6.78: Desint famosus quae notet ora pudor!'

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.