posses

posses is a Latin form of possum, meaning “be able, can”. It is the 2nd person singular imperfect active subjunctive.

Found 170 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro S. Roscio Amerino 46: si tibi fortuna non dedit ut patre certo nascerere ex quo intellegere posses qui animus patrius in liberos esset, at natura certe dedit ut humanitatis non parum haberes; eo accessit stud …

Martial, Epigrammata 1.41.17: Posses vincere Tettium Caballum.

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.