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Proto-Indo-European *de

Proto-Indo-European *-h₁

Proto-Indo-European *déh₁

Proto-Italic *dē

Latin dē

Latin de-

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.

Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁k-yé-ti

Proto-Italic *θakjō

Proto-Italic *fakjō

Latin facio

Latin dēficiō

Proto-Indo-European *-tus

Proto-Italic *-tus

Latin -tus

Latin dēfectusbor.

English defect

Category:English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *dʰeh₁-#DEFECT Category:English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *de#DEFECT Category:English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *déh₁#DEFECT Category:English terms derived from Proto-Italic#DEFECT Category:English terms borrowed from Latin#DEFECT Category:English terms derived from Latin#DEFECT Category:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#DEFECT Category:Pages with etymology trees#DEFECT Category:English entries with etymology trees#DEFECT

Borrowed from Latin Category:English terms borrowed from Latin#DEFECT Category:English terms derived from Latin#DEFECT defectus (“a failure, lack”), from deficere (“to fail, lack, literally 'undo'”), from past participle defectus, from de- (“of, from”) + facere (“to do”).

Pronunciation

(noun) enPR: dē'fĕkt, IPA^(key): /ˈdiːfɛkt/Category:English 2-syllable words#DEFECTCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#DEFECT
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(verb) enPR: dĭfĕkt', IPA^(key): /dɪˈfɛkt/Category:English 2-syllable words#DEFECTCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#DEFECT
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Rhymes: -ɛkt Category:Rhymes:English/ɛkt#DEFECT Category:Rhymes:English/ɛkt/2 syllables#DEFECT

Noun

defect (plural defects)Category:English lemmas#DEFECT Category:English nouns#DEFECT Category:English countable nouns#DEFECT Category:English entries with incorrect language header#DEFECT Category:Pages with entries#DEFECT Category:Pages with 3 entries#DEFECT

A fault or malfunction.
a defect in the ear or eye; a defect in timber or iron; a defect of memory or judgmentCategory:English terms with usage examples#DEFECT
- 1856 February, [Thomas Babington] Macaulay, “Oliver Goldsmith”, in T[homas] F[lower] E[llis], editor, The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, new edition, London: Longman, Green, Reader, & Dyer, published 1871, →OCLC:
  Among boys little tenderness is shown to personal defects.
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- 2014 October 21, Oliver Brown, “Oscar Pistorius jailed for five years – sport afforded no protection against his tragic fallibilities”, in The Daily Telegraph (Sport)‎:
  But ever since the concept of "hamartia" recurred through Aristotle's Poetics, in an attempt to describe man's ingrained iniquity, our impulse has been to identify a telling defect in those brought suddenly and dramatically low.
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- 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide‎, page 4:
  Another major defect of the current literature dealing with the nomenclature of hybrid forms of English is the scant attention paid to the question of frequency.
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The quantity or amount by which anything falls short.
- 1824, Lydia Sigourney, Sketch of Connecticut:
  and the indefatigable application with which they have supplied the defects of early culture.
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(mathematics Category:en:Mathematics#DEFECT) A part by which a figure or quantity is wanting or deficient.

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Adjectives often used with "defect"

major, minor, serious, cosmetic, functional, critical, fatal, basic, fundamental, main, primary, principal, radical, inherentCategory:English terms with collocations#DEFECT

Translations

fault or malfunction

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Arabic: خَلَل m (ḵalal)Category:Terms with Arabic translations#DEFECT, عَيْب m (ʕayb)Category:Terms with Arabic translations#DEFECT, عَوَار m (ʕawār)Category:Terms with Arabic translations#DEFECT
Armenian: արատ (hy) (arat)Category:Terms with Armenian translations#DEFECT
Assamese: খুঁত (khũt)Category:Terms with Assamese translations#DEFECT
Azerbaijani: qüsur (az)Category:Terms with Azerbaijani translations#DEFECT, nöqsan (az)Category:Terms with Azerbaijani translations#DEFECT, naqislikCategory:Terms with Azerbaijani translations#DEFECT, kəsirCategory:Terms with Azerbaijani translations#DEFECT
Belarusian: дэфе́кт m (defjékt)Category:Terms with Belarusian translations#DEFECT, га́на f (hána)Category:Terms with Belarusian translations#DEFECT
Bikol:
Central Bikol: kakundianCategory:Terms with Central Bikol translations#DEFECT
Bulgarian: недоста́тък (bg) m (nedostátǎk)Category:Terms with Bulgarian translations#DEFECT, повре́да (bg) (povréda)Category:Terms with Bulgarian translations#DEFECT, дефе́кт (bg) m (defékt)Category:Terms with Bulgarian translations#DEFECT
Catalan: defecte (ca) mCategory:Terms with Catalan translations#DEFECT
Chichewa: balaCategory:Terms with Chichewa translations#DEFECT
Chinese:
Mandarin: 缺點 / 缺点 (zh) (quēdiǎn)Category:Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations#DEFECT Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#DEFECT, 問題 / 问题 (zh) (wèntí)Category:Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations#DEFECT Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#DEFECT, 缺陷 (zh) (quēxiàn)Category:Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations#DEFECT Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#DEFECT, 弱點 / 弱点 (zh) (ruòdiǎn)Category:Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations#DEFECT Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#DEFECT, 毛病 (zh) (máobing, máobìng)Category:Mandarin terms with non-redundant manual transliterations#DEFECT Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#DEFECT
Czech: závada (cs) fCategory:Terms with Czech translations#DEFECT, porucha (cs) fCategory:Terms with Czech translations#DEFECT, vada (cs) fCategory:Terms with Czech translations#DEFECT, defekt (cs) mCategory:Terms with Czech translations#DEFECT
Dutch: gebrek (nl) nCategory:Terms with Dutch translations#DEFECT, mankement (nl) nCategory:Terms with Dutch translations#DEFECT
Estonian: vigaCategory:Terms with Estonian translations#DEFECT, defektCategory:Terms with Estonian translations#DEFECT
Finnish: vika (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#DEFECT
French: défaut (fr) mCategory:Terms with French translations#DEFECT
German: Fehler (de) mCategory:Terms with German translations#DEFECT, Defekt (de) mCategory:Terms with German translations#DEFECT
Greek: ελάττωμα (el) n (eláttoma)Category:Terms with Greek translations#DEFECT
Ancient Greek: ἐλάττωμα n (eláttōma)Category:Terms with Ancient Greek translations#DEFECT
Hebrew: פגם (he) m (pgam)Category:Terms with Hebrew translations#DEFECT
Hindi: दोष (hi) m (doṣ)Category:Terms with Hindi translations#DEFECT, खोट (hi) m (khoṭ)Category:Terms with Hindi translations#DEFECT
Hungarian: hiányosság (hu)Category:Terms with Hungarian translations#DEFECT, rendellenesség (hu)Category:Terms with Hungarian translations#DEFECT, fogyatékosság (hu)Category:Terms with Hungarian translations#DEFECT, hiány (hu)Category:Terms with Hungarian translations#DEFECT, hiba (hu)Category:Terms with Hungarian translations#DEFECT
Indonesian: cacat (id)Category:Terms with Indonesian translations#DEFECT
Ingrian: defektaCategory:Terms with Ingrian translations#DEFECT
Italian: difetto (it) mCategory:Terms with Italian translations#DEFECT
Japanese: 欠陥 (ja) (けっかん, kekkan)Category:Terms with Japanese translations#DEFECT, 欠点 (ja) (けってん, ketten)Category:Terms with Japanese translations#DEFECT
Korean: 결함 (ko) (gyeolham)Category:Terms with Korean translations#DEFECT
Latin: vitium nCategory:Terms with Latin translations#DEFECT, menda fCategory:Terms with Latin translations#DEFECT
Macedonian: дефект m (defekt)Category:Terms with Macedonian translations#DEFECT
Māori: tōrōkiriCategory:Terms with Māori translations#DEFECT
Persian: عیب (fa) ('eyb)Category:Terms with Persian translations#DEFECT, عوار (fa) ('avâr)Category:Terms with Persian translations#DEFECT, نقص (fa) (naqs)Category:Terms with Persian translations#DEFECT
Polish: wada (pl) fCategory:Terms with Polish translations#DEFECT, defekt (pl) mCategory:Terms with Polish translations#DEFECT, usterka (pl) fCategory:Terms with Polish translations#DEFECT
Portuguese: defeito (pt) mCategory:Terms with Portuguese translations#DEFECT
Russian: недоста́ток (ru) m (nedostátok)Category:Terms with Russian translations#DEFECT, дефе́кт (ru) m (defékt)Category:Terms with Russian translations#DEFECT, изъя́н (ru) m (izʺján)Category:Terms with Russian translations#DEFECT, брак (ru) m (brak)Category:Terms with Russian translations#DEFECT
Sanskrit: रपस् (sa) n (rapas)Category:Terms with Sanskrit translations#DEFECT (bodily)
Scottish Gaelic: cron mCategory:Terms with Scottish Gaelic translations#DEFECT
Serbo-Croatian: defekt (sh) mCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#DEFECT
Cyrillic: недостатак mCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#DEFECT

Latin: nedostatak (sh) mCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#DEFECT
Sikkimese: སྐྱོན (skyon)Category:Terms with Sikkimese translations#DEFECT
Slovak: vada fCategory:Terms with Slovak translations#DEFECT, porucha fCategory:Terms with Slovak translations#DEFECT, defekt mCategory:Terms with Slovak translations#DEFECT
Slovene: okvara fCategory:Terms with Slovene translations#DEFECT, napaka (sl) fCategory:Terms with Slovene translations#DEFECT
Spanish: falla (es) fCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#DEFECT, tacha (es) fCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#DEFECT, defecto (es) mCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#DEFECT, desperfecto (es) mCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#DEFECT
Swahili: kasoro (sw)Category:Terms with Swahili translations#DEFECT
Telugu: లోపం (lōpaṁ)Category:Terms with Telugu translations#DEFECT
Thai: ข้อบกพร่อง (bòk-prông)Category:Terms with Thai translations#DEFECT
Turkish: eksik (tr)Category:Terms with Turkish translations#DEFECT, kusur (tr)Category:Terms with Turkish translations#DEFECT, hata (tr)Category:Terms with Turkish translations#DEFECT
Ottoman Turkish: ردت (reddet)Category:Terms with Ottoman Turkish translations#DEFECT
Ukrainian: ґандж (uk) m (gandž)Category:Terms with Ukrainian translations#DEFECT, ва́да (uk) f (váda)Category:Terms with Ukrainian translations#DEFECT, дефе́кт (uk) m (defékt)Category:Terms with Ukrainian translations#DEFECT, хи́ба f (xýba)Category:Terms with Ukrainian translations#DEFECT
Uzbek: nuqson (uz)Category:Terms with Uzbek translations#DEFECT
Vietnamese: tật (vi)Category:Terms with Vietnamese translations#DEFECT, lỗi (vi)Category:Terms with Vietnamese translations#DEFECT
Yiddish: חסרון m (khisorn)Category:Yiddish terms with non-redundant manual transliterations#DEFECT Category:Terms with Yiddish translations#DEFECT

Verb

defect (third-person singular simple present defects, present participle defecting, simple past and past participle defected)Category:English lemmas#DEFECT Category:English verbs#DEFECT Category:English entries with incorrect language header#DEFECT Category:Pages with entries#DEFECT Category:Pages with 3 entries#DEFECT

(intransitive Category:English intransitive verbs#DEFECT) To abandon or turn against; to cease or change one's loyalty, especially from a military organisation or political party.
- 2013 May 23, Sarah Lyall, “British Leader’s Liberal Turn Sets Off a Rebellion in His Party”, in New York Times, retrieved 29 May 2013:
  Capitalizing on the restive mood, Mr. Farage, the U.K. Independence Party leader, took out an advertisement in The Daily Telegraph this week inviting unhappy Tories to defect. In it Mr. Farage sniped that the Cameron government — made up disproportionately of career politicians who graduated from Eton and Oxbridge — was “run by a bunch of college kids, none of whom have ever had a proper job in their lives.”
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(military Category:en:Military#DEFECT) To desert one's army, to flee from combat.
(military Category:en:Military#DEFECT) To join the enemy army.
(law Category:en:Law#DEFECT) To flee one's country and seek asylum.
- 2015 August 15, Choe Sang-Hun, “A North Korean Defector’s Regret”, in The New York Times‎, retrieved 20 September 2015:
  Passing through Thailand, she submitted a handwritten statement agreeing to defect, a requirement for North Korean refugees to be allowed to enter the South.
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to abandon; to change one's loyalty

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Bulgarian: дезерти́рам (bg) impf or pf (dezertíram)Category:Terms with Bulgarian translations#DEFECT
Chinese:
Mandarin: 變節 / 变节 (zh) (biànjié)Category:Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations#DEFECT Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#DEFECT, 叛變 / 叛变 (zh) (pànbiàn)Category:Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations#DEFECT Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#DEFECT
Dutch: overlopen (nl)Category:Terms with Dutch translations#DEFECT, deserteren (nl)Category:Terms with Dutch translations#DEFECT
Esperanto: ribeliCategory:Terms with Esperanto translations#DEFECT
Finnish: loikata (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#DEFECT
French: déserter (fr)Category:Terms with French translations#DEFECT, passer àCategory:Terms with French translations#DEFECT
Georgian: განდგომა (gandgoma)Category:Terms with Georgian translations#DEFECT
German: überlaufen (de)Category:Terms with German translations#DEFECT, sich zurückziehen (de)Category:Terms with German translations#DEFECT, aussteigen (de)Category:Terms with German translations#DEFECT, desertieren (de)Category:Terms with German translations#DEFECT
Greek: αυτομολώ (el) (aftomoló)Category:Terms with Greek translations#DEFECT, αποσκιρτώ (el) (aposkirtó)Category:Terms with Greek translations#DEFECT
Hebrew: ערק (he) ('aráq)Category:Terms with Hebrew translations#DEFECT
Hungarian: elszakad (hu)Category:Terms with Hungarian translations#DEFECT, cserbenhagy (hu)Category:Terms with Hungarian translations#DEFECT, otthagy (hu)Category:Terms with Hungarian translations#DEFECT, elhagy (hu)Category:Terms with Hungarian translations#DEFECT
Indonesian: membelot (id)Category:Terms with Indonesian translations#DEFECT
Italian: defezionare (it)Category:Terms with Italian translations#DEFECT
Japanese: 変節する (hensetsu suru)Category:Terms with Japanese translations#DEFECT
Korean: 변절하다 (ko) (byeonjeolhada)Category:Terms with Korean translations#DEFECT
Latin: dēscīscōCategory:Terms with Latin translations#DEFECT
Māori: whakarereCategory:Terms with Māori translations#DEFECT
Portuguese: trair (pt)Category:Terms with Portuguese translations#DEFECT, desertarCategory:Terms with Portuguese translations#DEFECT
Russian: изменя́ть (ru) impf (izmenjátʹ)Category:Terms with Russian translations#DEFECT, дезерти́ровать (ru) impf or pf (dezertírovatʹ)Category:Terms with Russian translations#DEFECT
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: пребјећиCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#DEFECT

Latin: prebjećiCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#DEFECT
Spanish: desertar (es)Category:Terms with Spanish translations#DEFECT, pasarse (es)Category:Terms with Spanish translations#DEFECT

to desert; to flee combat

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Dutch: deserteren (nl)Category:Terms with Dutch translations#DEFECT
Finnish: karata rintamaltaCategory:Terms with Finnish translations#DEFECT, karata (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#DEFECT
Georgian: დეზერტირობა (dezerṭiroba)Category:Terms with Georgian translations#DEFECT
German: desertieren (de)Category:Terms with German translations#DEFECT
Hungarian: dezertál (hu)Category:Terms with Hungarian translations#DEFECT, megszökik (hu)Category:Terms with Hungarian translations#DEFECT
Italian: disertare (it)Category:Terms with Italian translations#DEFECT
Japanese: 脱走する (ja) (dassō suru)Category:Terms with Japanese translations#DEFECT
Russian: дезерти́ровать (ru) (dezertírovatʹ)Category:Terms with Russian translations#DEFECT
Serbo-Croatian: dezertirati (sh)Category:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#DEFECT
Slovene: dezertiratiCategory:Terms with Slovene translations#DEFECT

to join the enemy

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Chinese:
Mandarin: 投敵 / 投敌 (zh) (toúdí)Category:Chinese terms with non-redundant manual transliterations#DEFECT Category:Terms with Chinese translations#DEFECT
Dutch: overlopen (nl)Category:Terms with Dutch translations#DEFECT
Esperanto: transfuĝiCategory:Terms with Esperanto translations#DEFECT
Estonian: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Estonian#DEFECT
Finnish: loikata (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#DEFECT
French: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into French#DEFECT
Georgian: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Georgian#DEFECT
German: überlaufen (de)Category:Terms with German translations#DEFECT
Hungarian: átáll (hu)Category:Terms with Hungarian translations#DEFECT, átpártol (hu)Category:Terms with Hungarian translations#DEFECT
Japanese: 寝返る (ja) (negaeru)Category:Terms with Japanese translations#DEFECT
Latin: transfugiōCategory:Terms with Latin translations#DEFECT
Latvian: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Latvian#DEFECT
Lithuanian: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Lithuanian#DEFECT
Polish: dezerterować (pl) impfCategory:Terms with Polish translations#DEFECT, zdezerterować pfCategory:Terms with Polish translations#DEFECT
Romanian: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Romanian#DEFECT
Russian: переходи́ть на сто́рону проти́вника (perexodítʹ na stóronu protívnika)Category:Terms with Russian translations#DEFECT
Serbo-Croatian: prebećiCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#DEFECT, prebjećiCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#DEFECT
Slovak: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Slovak#DEFECT
Slovene: prebegnitiCategory:Terms with Slovene translations#DEFECT
Turkish: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Turkish#DEFECT
Ukrainian: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Ukrainian#DEFECT

to flee one's country and seek asylum

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Dutch: asiel aanvragenCategory:Terms with Dutch translations#DEFECT, overlopen (nl)Category:Terms with Dutch translations#DEFECT
Finnish: loikata (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#DEFECT, paeta (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#DEFECT
Hungarian: (to flee) elszökik (hu)Category:Terms with Hungarian translations#DEFECT, (with emphasis on illegality) disszidál (hu)Category:Terms with Hungarian translations#DEFECT
Indonesian: membelot (id)Category:Terms with Indonesian translations#DEFECT
Japanese: 亡命する (ja) (bōmei suru)Category:Terms with Japanese translations#DEFECT
Serbo-Croatian: izbećiCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#DEFECT, izbjećiCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#DEFECT
Slovene: prebegnitiCategory:Terms with Slovene translations#DEFECT

Dutch

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Declension of defect
uninflected	defect
inflected	defecte
comparative	defecter
		positive	comparative	superlative
predicative/adverbial		defect	defecter	het defectst het defectste
indefinite	m./f. sing.	defecte	defectere	defectste
	n. sing.	defect	defecter	defectste
	plural	defecte	defectere	defectste
definite		defecte	defectere	defectste
partitive		defects	defecters	—

Descendants

Petjo: defèk

Noun

defect n (plural defecten, diminutive defectje n)Category:Dutch lemmas#DEFECT Category:Dutch nouns#DEFECT Category:Dutch nouns with plural in -en#DEFECT Category:Dutch entries with incorrect language header#DEFECT Category:Dutch neuter nouns#DEFECT Category:Pages with entries#DEFECT Category:Pages with 3 entries#DEFECT

a defect

Descendants

→ Indonesian: défèk

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Category:Romanian terms borrowed from Latin#DEFECT Category:Romanian terms derived from Latin#DEFECT defectus or German Category:Romanian terms borrowed from German#DEFECT Category:Romanian terms derived from German#DEFECT Defekt.

Adjective

defect m or n (feminine singular defectă, masculine plural defecți, feminine/neuter plural defecte)Category:Romanian lemmas#DEFECT Category:Romanian adjectives#DEFECT Category:Romanian entries with incorrect language header#DEFECT Category:Pages with entries#DEFECT Category:Pages with 3 entries#DEFECT

defective

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Declension of *defect*
		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	defect		defectă	defecți	defecte
nominative- accusative	definite	defectul		defecta	defecții	defectele
genitive- dative	indefinite	defect		defecte	defecți	defecte
genitive- dative	definite	defectului		defectei	defecților	defectelor

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defect n (plural defecte)Category:Romanian lemmas#DEFECT Category:Romanian nouns#DEFECT Category:Romanian countable nouns#DEFECT Category:Romanian entries with incorrect language header#DEFECT Category:Romanian neuter nouns#DEFECT Category:Pages with entries#DEFECT Category:Pages with 3 entries#DEFECT

defect

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	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	defect	defectul	defecte	defectele
genitive-dative	defect	defectului	defecte	defectelor
vocative	defectule		defectelor

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