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debet

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

Found 815 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Civili 3.51: … nt legati partes atque imperatoris: alter omnia agere ad praescriptum, alter libere ad summam rerum consulere debet. Sulla a Caesare in castris relictus liberatis suis hoc fuit contentus neque proelio decertare voluit, quae r …

Ovid, Ars Amatoria 1.724: Debet et a radiis sideris esse niger:

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.