quaerebat

quaerebat is a Latin form of quaero, meaning “seek, ask; inquire”. It is the 3rd person singular imperfect active indicative.

Found 76 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 8.53.1: … rovinciis, sententiisque dictis discessionem faciente Marcello, qui sibi omnem dignitatem ex Caesaris invidia quaerebat, senatus frequens in alia omnia transiit.

Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 13.25.2: Ex manubiis. Quaerebat Favorinus, cum in area fori ambularet et amicum suum consulem opperiretur causas pro tribunali cognoscentem nosque tunc eum sectaremur—quaerebat, inquam, quid nobis videretur significare proprie manubiarum illa inscriptio.

All forms of quaero (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.