ὄντε (onte)

ὄντε is an Ancient Greek form of εἰμί, meaning “to be, exist”. It is the present active participle nominative dual masculine.

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

Found 41 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Theocritus, Ἐπιγράμματα 24.114: ὅντε καὶ οὐκ ἐθέλοντα βιήσατο γῆρας ἀτερπὲς

Euripides, Electra 1298: πῶς ὄντε θεὼ τῆσδέ τʼ ἀδελφὼ

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.