malebat

malebat is a Latin form of malo, meaning “prefer”. It is the 3rd person singular imperfect active indicative.

Found 29 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Civili 1.72: … ovebatur etiam misericordia civium, quos interficiendos videbat; quibus salvis atque incolumibus rem obtinere malebat. Hoc consilium Caesaris plerisque non probabatur: milites vero palam inter se loquebantur, quoniam talis occa …

All forms of malo (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.