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possimus

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

Found 182 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.3.60: … quid amplius a me dicendum putatis? an id agendum ut eo celerius de isto transigamus quo maturius ad Apronium possimus, id quod ego illi iam in Sicilia pollicitus sum, pervenire? qui C. Matrinium, iudices, summa virtute hominem, …

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.