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Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs, quārum ūnam incolunt Belgae.

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Contents (2 entries · 7 senses)
S&H Smith & Hall (1)
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Digitized by Distributed Proofreaders from William Smith and Theophilus D. Hall, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Dictionary (1871), and generously placed into the public domain.
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• deficiency:
      1. 1. most freq. express. by dēfĭcio, dēsum: as, he could not be exposed to a d. of timber, non materia deficere poterat, Caes. B. C. 2, 37: without any d. of cash, non deficiente crumena, Hor. Ep. 1, 4, 11: v. wanting (to be), fail.
      2. 2. dēfectio (as something arising; not a state): v. failure.
      3. 3. dēfectus, ūs (= as state): Plin.
      4. 4. angustiae, arum (straits: q. v.): concerning the d. of provisions, de rei frumentariae angustiis, Caes.: Cic.
      5. 5. diffĭcultas (prop. difficulty of providing): d. of everything, omnium rerum d., Hirt.
      6. 6. pēnūria: a d. of females, p. mulierum, Liv.: d. of water, aquarum p., Sall.
      7. 7. lăcūna: v. deficit: cf. want, dearth. Phr.: a d. of wisdom, sapientiae parum. Sall.
R&A Riddle & Arnold (1)
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J. E. Riddle and T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Lexicon. Data retrieved from FergusJPWalsh/riddle-arnold under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
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• DEFICIENCY
defectio; defectus (with the genitive; expresses deficiency, as the want of anything; the first as casual, the last as a condition; in the sense of intellectual and moral imperfection, they are used in modern Latin only, without ancient authority): vitium (includes deficiency of any sort, and therefore imperfection, intellectual and moral): *quod deest or desideratur (what is wanting to make a thing complete): pars relicta (the part left undone): complete deficiency of everything, omnium rerum inopia; summa angustia rerum necessariarum: deficiency of money, pecuniae or argenti penuria [☞ defectus pecuniae, late]; inopia argenti or argentaria; difficultas rei numariae, or difficultas numaria; angustiae rei familiaris: deficiency of water, penuria aquarum: deficiency of water in the brooks, defectus aquarum circa rivos: deficiency of friends, penuria amicorum: to suffer from deficiency of anything, aliqua re carere (not to have it); aliqua re egere, indigere (to be sorry that one has not got it); *alicujus rei inopia laborare, premi also merely ab aliqua re laborare; aliqua re premi; alicujus rei inopia affici (e.g., consilii, Cic.): from a deficiency of arguments, inopia argumentorum: there is a great deficiency of anything, magna est alicujus rei penuria: deficiency of provisions (corn), rei frumentariae inopia, or angustiae, or difficultas: to supply the deficiency of corn, rei frumentariae mederi; rem frumentariam expedire: to supply a deficiency, partem relictam explere (it being a part left undone); inopiam alicujus rei lenire, levare (to supply it partially): aliqua re anguste uti (to be obliged to use it sparingly): the deficiencies of anything (faultiness), mendosa alicujus rei natura (Hor., Sat., 1, 6, 66). Vid: DEFECT.