esses

esses is a Latin form of sum, meaning “be, exist; (as auxiliary) is, are, was”. It is the 2nd person singular imperfect active subjunctive.

Found 260 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro S. Roscio Amerino 46: … a certe dedit ut humanitatis non parum haberes; eo accessit studium doctrinae ut ne a litteris quidem alienus esses. ecquid tandem tibi videtur, ut ad fabulas veniamus, senex ille Caecilianus minoris facere Eutychum, filium r …

Martial, Epigrammata 10.35.16: Esses doctior et pudica, Sappho:

Plautus, Cistellaria 1.1.3: apéruistis, tu átque haec: sorór si mea ésses,

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.