ἐσσί (essi)

ἐσσί is an Ancient Greek form of εἰμί, meaning “to be, exist”. It is the 2nd person singular present active indicative.

Found 129 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 1.85: ζάτεισʼ; ἆ δύσερώς τις ἄγαν καὶ ἀμήχανος ἐσσί.

Plutarch, Agis and Cleomenes Cleomenes.9.4: διὸ καί καλῶς ὁ εἰπών· ἵνα γὰρ δέος, ἔνθα καί αἰδώς. καί Ὅμηρος, αἰδοῖός τέ μοί ἐσσι, φίλε ἑκυρὲ, δεινός τε· καί σιγῇ δειδιότες σημάντορας. τὸ γὰρ αἰσχύνεσθαι μάλιστα συμβαίνει πρὸς οὓς καί τὸ δ …

Greek Anthology, Greek Anthology, Ἀνθολογία, Volume II 7.317.1: Τίμων ʽοὐ γὰρ ἔτʼ ἐσσἴ, τί τοι, σκότος ἢ φάος,

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.