debebat

debebat is a Latin form of debeo, meaning “owe; ought, must”. It is the 3rd person singular imperfect active indicative.

Found 85 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Civili 1.30: … am transducere exercitum iubet. Sardiniam obtinebat M. Cotta, Siciliam M. Cato; Africam sorte Tubero obtinere debebat. Caralitani, simul ad se Valerium mitti audierunt, nondum profecto ex Italia sua sponte Cottam ex oppido eici …

Lucan, Civil War 4.547: Debebat, grato moriens interficit ictu.

All forms of debeo (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.