sit

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

Found 10,235 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.16.6: quod, cum neque emi neque ex agris sumi possit, tam necessario tempore, tam propinquis hostibus ab iis non sublevetur, praesertim cum magna ex parte eorum precibus adductus bellum susceperit[; multo etiam gravius quod sit destitutus queritur].

Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 1.85: Sit igitur aliquis, qui nihil mali habeat, nullum a fortuna volnus acceperit: Metellus ille honoratis quattuor fi …

Ovid, Tristia 3.3.75: AT. TIBI. QVI. TRANSIS . NE. SIT . GRAVE. QVISQVIS. AMASTI

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.