potuerat

potuerat is a Latin form of possum, meaning “be able, can”. It is the 3rd person singular pluperfect active indicative.

Found 34 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.2.42: … ge velle sortiri. quod ab eo pridie, cum multis lacrimis cum oraret atque obsecraret, Heraclius impetrare non potuerat, id ei postridie venit in mentem, ex lege Rupilia sortiri dicas oportere. educit ex urna tris; his ut absente …

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.