praestabat
praestabat is a Latin form of praesto, meaning “excel; provide; (adv.) at hand”. It is the 3rd person singular imperfect active indicative.
Found 30 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.
Where it is used
Caesar, De Bello Gallico 2.15.1: Caesar honoris Diviciaci atque Haeduorum causa sese eos in fidem recepturum et conservaturum dixit, et quod erat civitas magna inter Belgas auctoritate atque hominum multitudine praestabat, DC obsides poposcit.
All forms of praesto (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.