dabat

dabat is a Latin form of do, meaning “give; put; grant”. It is the 3rd person singular imperfect active indicative.

Found 251 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 5.7.3: quod Carus ventus navigationem impediebat, qui magnam partem omnis temporis in his locis flare consuevit, dabat operam ut in officio Dumnorigem contineret, nihilo tamen setius omnia eius consilia cognosceret.

Seneca the Younger, Epistulae 19.115.15: … c Euripides in medium ipse prosilivit petens, ut expectarent viderentque, quem admirator auri exitum faceret. Dabat in illa fabula poenas Bellerophontes, quas in sua quisque dat.

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.