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Deficient

2 stages from Latin to English.

Today it means lacking an essential quality or element that is required
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Stage 1 of 2
deficere
Latin · ancient
"to fail, to lack"
to make down from, to fail, to lack, from de- (down) and facere (to make)
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Stage 2 of 2
deficient
English · 1400s
"lacking something necessary or required"
settled as the English word for lacking something necessary
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