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possim

possim is a Latin form of possum, meaning “be able, can”. It is the 1st person singular present active subjunctive.

Found 352 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro S. Roscio Amerino 56: … rum tamen, quamquam abest a culpa, suspicione tamen non caret; tametsi miserum est, tamen ei qui hunc accuset possim aliquo modo ignoscere. cum enim aliquid habeat quod possit criminose ac suspiciose dicere, aperte ludificari …

Martial, Epigrammata 8.58.2: Possim te Sagarim iure vocare meo.

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.