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potuisses

potuisses is a Latin form of possum, meaning “be able, can”. It is the 2nd person singular pluperfect active subjunctive.

Found 31 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.3.133: … entia hoc verbo ac simulatione Apronio, re vera tibi obiectum esset, tu umquam tantam plagam tacitus accipere potuisses nisi hoc ita statuisses, in re tam manifesta quicquid dixisses te deterius esse facturum?

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.