referebat
referebat is a Latin form of refero, meaning “bring back; report; refer”. It is the 3rd person singular imperfect active indicative.
Found 54 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.
Where it is used
Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.1.36: … it neque Sulla vidit neque in aerarium relata sunt. oppidum sibi elegit Ariminum, quod tum, cum iste rationes referebat, oppressum direptumque erat: non suspicabatur, id quod nunc sentiet, satis multos ex illa calamitate Ariminen …
Pliny the Younger, Epistulae 3.5.17: … xaginta mihi reliquit, opisthographos quidem et minutissimis scriptos; qua ratione multiplicatur hic numerus. Referebat ipse potuisse se, cum procuraret in Hispania, vendere hos commentarios Larcio Licino quadringentis milibus nu …
All forms of refero (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.