oporteret

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

Found 126 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.16.5: Ubi se diutius duci intellexit et diem instare quo die frumentum militibus metiri oporteret, convocatis eorum principibus, quorum magnam copiam in castris habebat, in his Diviciaco et Lisco, qui summo …

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.