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oportuisse

oportuisse is a Latin form of oportet, meaning “it is necessary, one ought”. It is the perfect active infinitive.

Found 33 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.1.12: … dierit, usque dum per me licuerit retinuisse. hoc in illo maiestatis iudicio si licuisse sibi ostenderit, ego oportuisse concedam. ex hoc quoque evaserit: proficiscar eo quo me iam pridem vocat populus Romanus;

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.