στιν (stin)

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

Found 64 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 6.7.98: ἀλλὰ καὶ εἰπόντος αὐτῇ, αὕτη ʼστὶν ἡ τὰς παρʼ ἱστοῖς ἐκλιποῦσα κερκίδας; ἐγώ, φησίν, εἰμί, Θεόδωρε· ἀλλὰ μὴ κακῶς σοι δοκῶ βεβουλεῦσθαι περὶ αὑτ …

Euripides, Cyclops 129: αὐτὸς δὲ Κύκλωψ ποῦ ’στιν; ἦ δόμων ἔσω;

Euripides, Suppliants 957: στίν μοι κουροτόκοις ἐν Ἀργείαις·

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.