interest

interest is a Latin form of intersum, meaning “be present at; be between”. It is the 3rd person singular present active indicative.

Found 349 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.1.117: … oportet, si tabvlae testamenti non proferentvr. quid ait? se ei daturum qui se dicat heredem esse. quid ergo interest proferantur necne? si protulerit, uno signo ut sit minus quam ex lege oportet, non des possessionem: si omnin …

Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 2.35: Interest aliquid inter laborem et dolorem. sunt finitima omnino, sed tamen differt aliquid. labor est functio quaedam …

All forms of intersum (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.