parabant
parabant is a Latin form of paro, meaning “prepare, get, obtain”. It is the 3rd person plural imperfect active indicative.
Found 53 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.
Where it is used
Caesar, De Bello Gallico 6.7.1: Dum haec a Caesare geruntur, Treveri magnis coactis peditatus equitatusque copiis Labienum cum una legione, quae in eorum finibus hiemaverat, adoriri parabant.
Pseudo-Caesar, De Bello Alexandrino 45: … et vexillo sublato, quo pugnandi dabat signum, quae primae naves subsequebantur idem ut facerent significabas Parabant se Vatiniani repente oppressi; parati deinceps Octaviam ex portu procedebant. Instruitur utrimque acies, ordi …
All forms of paro (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.