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desunt

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

Found 109 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro S. Roscio Amerino 30: … Tito Roscio dare an insutus in culleum per summum dedecus vitam amittere. patronos huic defuturos putaverunt; desunt; qui libere dicat, qui cum fide defendat, id quod in hac causa satis est non deest profecto, iudices.

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.