putabant
putabant is a Latin form of puto, meaning “think, suppose; reckon”. It is the 3rd person plural imperfect active indicative.
Found 62 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.
Where it is used
Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.2.42: interea sane perturbatus et ipse et eius amici et consiliarii moleste ferre coeperunt Heraclium profugisse; putabant absentis damnationem, praesertim tantae pecuniae, multo invidiosiorem fore quam si praesens damnatus esset. e …
Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 17.2.26: Putabant, inquit, eos qui foris atque qui in arce erant inter se commutationes et consilia facere. Commutationes, id est conlationes communicationesque, non usitate dixit, set non hercle inscite nec ineleganter.
All forms of puto (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.