essent

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

Found 1,952 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.5.3: … quod secum portaturi erant, comburunt, ut domum reditionis spe sublata paratiores ad omnia pericula subeunda essent; trium mensum molita cibaria sibi quemque domo efferre iubent. Persuadent Rauracis et Tulingis et Latobrigis …

Seneca the Younger, Epistulae 11_13.87.33: Isto modo, inquit, etiam malum sunt divitia non tantum bonum non sunt. Essent malum, ipsae nocerent, si, ut dixi, haberent efficientem causam; nunc praecedentem habent et quidem non inrit …

Plautus, Asinaria 2.2.364: ní hodie Argyrippo éssent viginti argenti minae;

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.