sint

sint is a Latin form of sum, meaning “be, exist; (as auxiliary) is, are, was”. It is the 3rd person plural present active subjunctive.

Found 2,756 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.14.6: Cum ea ita sint, tamen, si obsides ab iis sibi dentur, uti ea quae polliceantur facturos intellegat, et si Haeduis de iniuriis quas ipsis sociisque eorum intulerint, item si Allobrogibus satis faciunt, sese cum iis pacem esse facturum.

Cicero, De Natura Deorum 1.109: … rtales, et quoniam nascuntur in terra, nascantur in aqua. Et quia sunt quae interimant, sint quae conservent. Sint sane, sed ea conservent quae sunt; deos istos esse non sentio.

Plautus, Aulularia 4.9.718: qui véstitu et creta óccultant sese átque sedent quasi sínt frugi.

All forms of sum (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.