potuit

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

Found 1,157 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.26.2: Nam hoc toto proelio, cum ab hora septima ad vesperum pugnatum sit, aversum hostem videre nemo potuit.

Pliny the Younger, Epistulae 3.12.3: Describit enim eos, quibus obvius fuerit, cum caput ebrii retexissent, erubuisse; deinde adicit: 'Putares non ab illis Catonem, sed illos a Catone deprehensos.' Potuitne plus auctoritatis tribui Catoni, quam si ebrius quoque tam venerabilis erat?

Plautus, Miles Gloriosus 2.2.262: nam ille non pótuit quin sermone suo aliquem familiarium

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.