ὄντʼ (ont)

ὄντʼ is an Ancient Greek form of εἰμί, meaning “to be, exist”. It is the present active participle accusative singular masculine.

It can also be a form of ὅστε, “who, which”.

Found 85 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Cyclops 450: πῶς δαί; σοφόν τοί σ’ ὄντ’ ἀκούομεν πάλαι.

Euripides, Heracles 1412: εἴ σʼ ὄψεταί τις θῆλυν ὄντʼ, οὐκ αἰνέσει.

Sophocles, Ichneutae 147: κάκιστα θηρῶν ὀντ[ες, ἐ]ν [π]άσῃ σκιᾷ

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.