ἐστι (esti)

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

Found 18,557 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.692: αὔτως, ἣ θέμις ἐστί, πάρος κακότητα πελάσσαι.

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 1.2.63: Ἔστι δὲ καὶ ἡμέτερον ἐπίγραμμα ἐν τῇ προειρημένῃ Παμμέτρῳ, ἔνθα καὶ περὶ πάντων τῶν τελευτησάντων ἐλλογίμων διείλε …

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 24.40: ἔστί τί μοι κατὰ δῶμα νεώτερον, ἔστι φίλʼ ἀνδρῶν.

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.