potes

potes is a Latin form of possum, meaning “be able, can”. It is the 2nd person singular present active indicative.

Found 763 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro S. Roscio Amerino 54: … dem, voluisse exheredare, certe tu planum facere debes. quid ergo adfers qua re id factum putemus? vere nihil potes dicere; finge aliquid saltem commode ut ne plane videaris id facere quod aperte facis, huius miseri fortunis …

Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 5.12: … Quid? ad recte honeste laudabiliter, postremo ad bene vivendum satisne est praesidi in virtute? Certe satis. Potes igitur aut, qui male vivat, non eum miserum dicere aut, quem bene fateare, eum negare beate vivere? Quidni po …

Plautus, Bacchides 5.2.1189: dimídium auri datur: áccipias, potésque et scortum accúmbas.

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.