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potuerit

potuerit is a Latin form of possum, meaning “be able, can”. It is the 3rd person singular perfect active subjunctive.

Found 184 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.17.6: Quin etiam, quod necessariam rem coactus Caesari enuntiarit, intellegere sese quanto id cum periculo fecerit, et ob eam causam quam diu potuerit tacuisse.

Cicero, Partitiones Oratoriae 106: … b Decio est: Ne sceleratissimum quidem civem sine iudicio iure ullo necare potuisti, oritur illa disceptatio: Potueritne recte salutis rei publicae causa civem eversorem civitatis indemnatum necare? Ita disceptationes eae, quae …

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.