tenebant

tenebant is a Latin form of teneo, meaning “hold, keep; understand”. It is the 3rd person plural imperfect active indicative.

Found 95 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 3.24.4: Hoc consilio probato ab ducibus, productis Romanorum copiis, sese castris tenebant.

All forms of teneo (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.