“deficiency” in Latin

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.