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debuisti

debuisti is a Latin form of debeo, meaning “owe; ought, must”. It is the 2nd person singular perfect active indicative.

Found 40 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.2.116: … nflarat. putarem te gratum in deos si hoc donum Veneri non de Stheni bonis dedisses, sed de tuis; quod facere debuisti, praesertim cum tibi illo ipso anno a Chelidone venisset hereditas.

Seneca the Elder, Controversiae 1.1.24: … meo acceperimus iniuriam, ego et filius, ego solus irascor? non est quod miretur: iam filio satisfactum est. Debuisti, inquit, me rogare ut ipse praestarem, debuisti illum ad me perducere, debuisti reconciliationem temptare, no …

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.