forem

forem is a Latin form of sum, meaning “be, exist; (as auxiliary) is, are, was”. It is the 1st person singular imperfect active subjunctive.

Found 43 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 5.59: … latam cubiculari lecto circumdedisset eiusque fossae transitum ponticulo ligneo coniunxisset, eum ipsum, cum forem cubiculi clauserat, detorquebat. idemque cum in communibus suggestis consistere non auderet, contionari ex tu …

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.