tenebat

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

Found 185 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.7.3: … opterea quod aliud iter haberent nullum: rogare ut eius voluntate id sibi facere liceat. Caesar, quod memoria tenebat L. Cassium consulem occisum exercitumque eius ab Helvetiis pulsum et sub iugum missum, concedendum non putaba …

Phaedrus, Fabulae 2.2.4: Tenebat annos celans elegantia,

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.