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στί (sti)

στί is an Ancient Greek form of εἰμί, meaning “to be, exist”. It is the 3rd person singular present active indicative.

Found 47 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 2.8.82: … τος δέ, ὁρᾷς, ἔφη, ὅτι οὐκ ἠπόρηκα; εἰπόντος πρὸς αὐτὸν Διονυσίου· ὅστις γὰρ ὡς τύραννον ἐμπορεύεται, κείνου 〉στὶ δοῦλος, κἂν ἐλεύθερος μόλῃ· ὑπολαβών, οὐκ ἔστι δοῦλος, ἂν ἐλεύθερος μόλῃ. τοῦτο Διοκλῆς φησιν ἐν τῷ Περὶ βίων …

Euripides, Cyclops 115: τείχη δὲ ποῦ ’στι καὶ πόλεως πυργώματα;

Euripides, Helen 453: αἰαῖ· τὰ κλεινὰ ποῦ ʼστί μοι στρατεύματα;

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.