cernebat
cernebat is a Latin form of cerno, meaning “see, perceive; decide”. It is the 3rd person singular imperfect active indicative.
Found 36 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.
Where it is used
Cicero, De Republica 1.29: … visse, ut bono essent animo; videre enim se hominum vestigia; quae videlicet ille non ex agri consitura, quam cernebat, sed ex doctrinae indiciis interpretabatur. Quam ob rem, Tubero, semper mihi et doctrina et eruditi homines e …
Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae 1.P2.8: Cernebat rosei lumina solis,
All forms of cerno (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.