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desit

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

Found 114 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro S. Roscio Amerino 8: … itis, non recusamus quin illorum libidini Sex. Rosci vita dedatur. sin aliud agitur nihil nisi ut eis ne quid desit quibus satis nihil est, si hoc solum hoc tempore pugnatur ut ad illam opimam praeclaramque praedam damnatio S …

Ovid, Medicamina faciei femineae 1.74: Desit et Illyrica quae venit iris humo.

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.