ἔσται (estai)

ἔσται is an Ancient Greek form of εἰμί, meaning “to be, exist”. It is the 3rd person singular future middle indicative.

Found 3,028 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 3.184: μῆτις ἐπίρροθος ἔσται ἐεργομένοισιν ἀυτῆς.

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 5.1.11: … ἀλεγεινῆς. Καὶ οὗτος μὲν ὁ βίος τοῦ φιλοσόφου. ἡμεῖς δὲ καὶ διαθήκαις αὐτοῦ περιετύχομεν, οὕτω πως ἐχούσαις· “Ἔσται μὲν εὖ· ἐὰν δέ τι συμβαίνῃ, τάδε διέθετο Ἀριστοτέλης· ἐπίτροπον μὲν εἶναι πάντων καὶ διὰ παντὸς Ἀντίπατρον·

Procopius, De Bellis 6.28.13: ἢν δέ γε ξὺν Ῥωμαίοις τετάξονται Γότθοι, οὐδ’ ὣς τῷ Φράγγων ἔθνει ἀνθέξουσιν ʽοὐ γὰρ ἐξ ἀντιπάλου τῆς δυνάμεως ὁ ἀγὼν ἔσταἰ, ἀλλὰ περιέσται ὑμῖν τὸ ξὺν τοῖς πάντων πολεμιωτάτοις ἡσσῆσθαι.

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.