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potuissem

potuissem is a Latin form of possum, meaning “be able, can”. It is the 1st person singular pluperfect active subjunctive.

Found 39 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.1.31: … in cautione viderunt,—cum ita caverent, si post Kalendas Ianuarias in consilium iretur,— in eam diem ego, cum potuissem vitare, incidissem?

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.