ἐσθίων (esthion)

ἐσθίων is an Ancient Greek form of ἐσθίω, meaning “eat”.

It can also be a form of εἰσθέω, “run in”.

It can also be a form of ἔσθος, “clothing”. It is the genitive plural neuter noun.

Found 54 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 1.10.114: … εσμά τι καὶ φυλάττοι ἐν χηλῇ βοός· προσφερόμενός τε κατʼ ὀλίγον μηδεμιᾷ κενοῦσθαι ἀποκρίσει μηδὲ ὀφθῆναί ποτε ἐσθίων. μέμνηται αὐτοῦ καὶ Τίμαιος ἐν τῇ δευτέρᾳ. λέγουσι δέ τινες ὅτι Κρῆτες αὐτῷ θύουσιν ὡς θεῷ· φασὶ γὰρ καὶ 〈προ …

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.