cupiebat

cupiebat is a Latin form of cupio, meaning “desire, long for”. It is the 3rd person singular imperfect active indicative.

Found 43 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.2.17: … gendo discere,—tametsi non provinciae rudis erat et tiro: sed Siciliae paratus ad praedam meditatusque venire cupiebat.

Terence, Phormio 1.2.118: Cupiebat, et metuebat absentem patrem.

All forms of cupio (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.