εἶναι (einai)

εἶναι is an Ancient Greek form of εἰμί, meaning “to be, exist”. It is the present active infinitive.

Found 25,289 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.1038: εἶναι ἀριστήων αὐτῇ ὑπὸ νυκτὶ πέδησεν

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 2.8.88: Εἶναί τε τὴν μερικὴν ἡδονὴν διʼ αὑτὴν αἱρετήν· τὴν δʼ εὐδαιμονίαν οὐ διʼ αὑτήν, ἀλλὰ διὰ τὰς κατὰ μέρος ἡδονάς. πίσ …

Plutarch, Amatorius 19·2: … ὴ παρόντος Ἔρωτος. ἐοικέναι μὲν οὖν Ἀφροδίτη σελήνην ἥλιον δὲ Ἔρωτι τῶν ἄλλων θεῶν μᾶλλον εἰκός ἐστιν, οὐ μὴν εἶναὶ γε παντάπασι τοὺς αὐτούς οὐ γὰρ ψυχῇ σῶμα ταὐτὸν ἀλλʼ ἕτερον, ὥσπερ ἣλιον μὲν ὁρατὸν Ἔρωτα δὲ νοητόν. εἰ δὲ μ …

All forms of εἰμί (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.