posse

posse is a Latin form of possum, meaning “be able, can”. It is the present active infinitive.

Found 2,993 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.3.7: Hac oratione adducti inter se fidem et ius iurandum dant et regno occupato per tres potentissimos ac firmissimos populos totius Galliae sese potiri posse sperant.

Ovid, Heroides 16.308: Posse satis formae, Tyndari, nosse tuae?

Plautus, Pseudolus 4.7.1176: ubi suram aspicias, scias pósse eum—gerere crassas compedes.

All forms of possum (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.