esto

esto is a Latin form of sum, meaning “be, exist; (as auxiliary) is, are, was”. It is the 2nd person singular future active imperative or 2nd person singular present active imperative.

Found 235 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro S. Roscio Amerino 73: … omines autem prudentissimos agitur qui intellegunt neminem ne minimum quidem maleficium sine causa admittere. esto, causam proferre non potes. tametsi statim vicisse debeo, tamen de meo iure decedam et tibi quod in alia caus …

Cicero, De Republica 4.11: … r, probare sua theatris flagitia potuissent. quem illa non adtigit vel potius quem non vexavit? cui pepercit? Esto, populares homines inprobos, in re publica seditiosos, Cleonem, Cleophontem, Hyperbolum laesit. Patiamur, ets …

Cicero, Letters to his Friends 8.8.3: … que unum et centesimum caput legit, in quo ita erat: QVOD EORVM IVDICVM MAIOR PARS IVDICARIT, ID IVS RATVMQVE ESTO, in tabulas absolutum non rettulit, ordinum iudicia perscripsit; postulante rusus Appio cum L. Lollio transeg …

All forms of sum (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.