erat

erat is a Latin form of sum, meaning “be, exist; (as auxiliary) is, are, was”. It is the 3rd person singular imperfect active indicative.

Found 7,915 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.3.3: … , Sequano, cuius pater regnum in Sequanis multos annos obtinuerat et a senatu populi Romani amicus appellatus erat, ut regnum in civitate sua occuparet, quod pater ante habuerit;

Propertius, Elegiae 2.13b.20: VNIVS HIC QVONDAM SERVVS AMORIS ERAT.

Plautus, Aulularia 3.4.466: qui érat anu peculiaris, perdidit paenissume.

All forms of sum (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.