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voluissent

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

Found 45 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 1.1.44: … criptos iudicia male et flagitiose tueri; quodsi in rebus iudicandis populi Romani existimationi satis facere voluissent, non tanto opere homines fuisse tribuniciam potestatem desideraturos.

Livy, Ab urbe condita 23.13.6: nam et simultas cum familia Barcina leuiorem auctorem faciebat et occupati animi praesenti laetitia nihil quo uanius fieret gaudium suum auribus admittebant debellatumque mox fore, si adniti paulum uoluissent, rebantur.

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.