potestis

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

Found 130 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 6.35.9: Tribus horis Aduatucam venire potestis: huc omnes suas fortunas exercitus Romanorum contulit: praesidi tantum est, ut ne murus quidem cingi possit, neque quisquam egredi extra munitiones audeat."

Jerome, Epistolae 52.7·2: … videant aut non dignentur audire. Et si alii, inquit Paulus apostolus, fuerit revelatum sedenti, prior tacet. Potestis enim per singulos prophetare, ut omnes discant et omnes consolentur. Et spiritus prophetarum prophetis subiec …

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.