ἐσθίειν (esthiein)

ἐσθίειν is an Ancient Greek form of ἐσθίω, meaning “eat”. It is the present active infinitive.

Found 141 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 1.5.83: … Πριηνέας. θᾶττον δʼ αὐτῷ πέμψαντι πρὸς τὸν Βίαντα ἵνα ἥκοι παρʼ αὐτόν, ἐγὼ δέ, φησίν, Ἀλυάττῃ κελεύω κρόμμυα ἐσθίειν, [ἴσον τῷ κλαίειν].

All forms of ἐσθίω (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.