maluerunt
maluerunt is a Latin form of malo, meaning “prefer”. It is the 3rd person plural perfect active indicative.
Found 35 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.
Where it is used
Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.1.82: … digne persequi possent, tamen incommoda sua nostris committere legibus et iudiciis quam dolori suo permittere maluerunt. tu mihi, cum circumsessus a tam inlustri civitate sis propter tuum scelus atque flagitium, cum coegeris homi …
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.