ἐστιν (estin)

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

Found 22,078 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.1317: Ἄργεΐ οἱ μοῖρʼ ἐστὶν ἀτασθάλῳ Εὐρυσθῆι

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.40.2: … δαῖς ἐξεῖναι παρ’ ὁποτέρους τις βούλεται τῶν ἀγράφων πόλεων ἐλθεῖν, οὐ τοῖς ἐπὶ βλάβῃ ἑτέρων ἰοῦσιν ἡ ξυνθήκη ἐστίν, ἀλλ’ ὅστις μὴ ἄλλου ἑαυτὸν ἀποστερῶν ἀσφαλείας δεῖται καὶ ὅστις μὴ τοῖς δεξαμένοις, εἰ σωφρονοῦσι, πόλεμον ἀ …

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 9.11.78: Ἔστιν οὖν ὁ Πυρρώνειος λόγος μήνυσίς τις τῶν φαινομένων ἢ τῶν ὁπωσοῦν νοουμένων, καθʼ ἣν πάντα πᾶσι συμβάλλεται καὶ …

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.