ostendebat

ostendebat is a Latin form of ostendo, meaning “show, display”. It is the 3rd person singular imperfect active indicative.

Found 31 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Philippicae 8.20: … ! iterum legatos? quasi ille faceret indutias? ante os oculosque legatorum tormentis Mutinam verberavit; opus ostendebat munitionemque legatis; ne punctum quidem temporis, cum legati adessent, oppugnatio respiravit. ad hunc legato …

Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 5.4.2: … ibro mendum dicebat; sed contra librarius in quodvis pignus vocabat, si in una uspiam littera delictum esset. Ostendebat grammaticus ita scriptum in libro quarto:

All forms of ostendo (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.