potuisset

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

Found 252 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 7.41.1: Caesar nuntiis ad civitatem Aeduorum missis, qui suo beneficio conservatos docerent quos iure belli interficere potuisset, tribusque horis noctis exercitui ad quietem datis castra ad Gergoviam movit.

Plautus, Persa 2.1.173: ovis si ín ludum iret, pótuisset iam fíeri ut probe litterás sciret,

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.