foret

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

Found 628 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Republica 2.24: … , qui regem non deligendum duxit, si modo hoc in Lycurgi potestate potuit esse, sed habendum, qualiscumque is foret, qui modo esset Herculis stirpe generatus; nostri illi etiam tum agrestes viderunt virtutem et sapientiam reg …

Plautus, Miles Gloriosus 4.2.1083: Si hic prídie natus forét quam ille est, hic habéret regnum in caélo.

Plautus, Trinummus 4.1.837: ruere ántemnas, scindére vela, ni túa pax propitia fóret praesto.

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.