forent

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

Found 209 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Vergil, Georgics 1.260: multa, forent quae mox caelo properanda sereno,

Plautus, Bacchides 4.9.953: Ílio tria fuísse audivi fáta quae illi fórent exitio:

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.