potuerunt

potuerunt is a Latin form of possum, meaning “be able, can”. It is the 3rd person plural perfect active indicative.

Found 223 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 4.14.4: Quo loco qui celeriter arma capere potuerunt paulisper nostris restiterunt atque inter carros impedimenta proelium commiserunt;

Seneca the Elder, Controversiae 10.4.11: … i quis numerus efficiat ut laesa uideatur respublica. duo debilitantur, nondum respublica laesa est. iuuenes. Potuerunt, inquit, duces fieri. potuerunt et sacrilegi esse et homicidae, potuerunt et perire. Attamen crudelem rem fac …

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.