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dabam

dabam is a Latin form of do, meaning “give; put; grant”. It is the 1st person singular imperfect active indicative.

Found 33 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Letters to his Friends 10.18.4: … i Bruto exercituique eius sine mora transitus esset paratus. ipse, ut spero, diebus viii, quibus has litteras dabam, cum Lepidi copiis me coniungam.

Seneca the Younger, Epistulae 17_18.102.2: … . Praebebam enim me facilem opinionibus magnorum virorum rem gratissimam promittentium magis quam probantium. Dabam me spei tantae. Iam eram fastidio mihi, iam reliquias aetatis infractae contemnebam in immensum illud tempus …

All forms of do (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.