vellent

vellent is a Latin form of volo, meaning “want, wish, be willing”. It is the 3rd person plural imperfect active subjunctive.

Found 300 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.7.5: Tamen, ut spatium intercedere posset dum milites quos imperaverat convenirent, legatis respondit diem se ad deliberandum sumpturum: si quid vellent, ad Id. April. reverterentur.

Suetonius, Divus Julius 28.1: … rarum orbem adliciebat, aliis captiuorum milia dono offerens, aliis citra senatus populique auctoritatem, quo uellent et quotiens uellent, auxilia submittens, superque Italiae Galliarumque et Hispaniarum, Asiae quoque et Graeci …

Phaedrus, Fabulae appendix.28.11: Vellent carere, tuti posthac viverent;

All forms of volo (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.