poteram

poteram is a Latin form of possum, meaning “be able, can”. It is the 1st person singular imperfect active indicative.

Found 129 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.1.16: … neque publice neque privatim fuit: vim in inquirendo tantam habui quantam mihi lex dabat, non quantam habere poteram istorum studio quos iste vexarat.

Seneca the Younger, Epistulae 2.17.11: Poteram hoc loco epistulam claudere, nisi te male instituissem. Reges Parthorum non potest quisquam salutare sine munere; tibi valedicere non licet gratis. Quid istic? Ab Epicuro mutuum sumam: Multis parasse divitias non finis miseriarum fuit, sed mutatio.

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.