mallent

mallent is a Latin form of malo, meaning “prefer”. It is the 3rd person plural imperfect active subjunctive.

Found 51 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Civili 1.32: … esset, Acerbitatem inimicorum docet, qui, quod ab altero postularent, in se recusarent atque omnia permisceri mallent, quam imperium exercitusque dimittere. Iniuriam in eripiendis legionibus praedicat, crudelitatem et insolenti …

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.