esset

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

Found 6,725 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.3.5: Perfacile factu esse illis probat conata perficere, propterea quod ipse suae civitatis imperium obtenturus esset:

Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 3.67: … tur, ut ille apud Euripidem: Si míhi nunc tristis prímum inluxissét dies Nec tam aérumnoso návigavissém salo, Essét dolendi caúsa, ut iniecto éculei Frenó repente táctu exagitantúr novo; Sed iám subactus míseriis optórpui. de …

Ovid, Heroides 10.78: Esset, quam dederas, morte soluta fides.

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.