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oporteat

oporteat is a Latin form of oportet, meaning “it is necessary, one ought”. It is the 3rd person singular present active subjunctive.

Found 156 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro S. Roscio Amerino 34: … oculos expositam consideremus; ita facillime quae res totum iudicium contineat et quibus de rebus nos dicere oporteat et quid vos sequi conveniat intellegetis.

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.