obtinebant

obtinebant is a Latin form of obtineo, meaning “hold, keep, possess; maintain; obtain”. It is the 3rd person plural imperfect active indicative.

Found 31 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.7.3: … unt, legatos ad eum mittunt nobilissimos civitatis, cuius legationis Nammeius et Verucloetius principem locum obtinebant, qui dicerent sibi esse in animo sine ullo maleficio iter per provinciam facere, propterea quod aliud iter ha …

All forms of obtineo (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.