εἶναι
διὸ δὴ πᾶς ἀνὴρ σπουδαῖος τῶν ὄντων σπουδαίων πέρι πολλοῦ δεῖ μὴ γράψας ποτὲ ἐν ἀνθρώποις εἰς φθόνον καὶ ἀπορίαν καταβαλεῖ → And this is the reason why every serious man in dealing with really serious subjects carefully avoids writing, lest thereby he may possibly cast them as a prey to the envy and stupidity of the public | Therefore every man of worth, when dealing with matters of worth, will be far from exposing them to ill feeling and misunderstanding among men by committing them to writing
French (Bailly abrégé)
inf. de εἰμί.
Russian (Dvoretsky)
εἶναι: inf. к εἰμί.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
εἶναι: ἀπαρ. τοῦ εἰμὶ (ὑπάρχω). ΙΙ. ἐν Ἡσ. Ἔργ. κ. Ἡμ. 351 τῷ προσιόντι προσεῖναι (ἔνθα κεῖται αντὶ του προσιέναι, ἀπαρ. τοῦ πρόσειμι, πλησιάζω) πιθανῶς εἶναι ἐφθαρμένον.
English (Strong)
present infinitive from εἰμί; to exist: am, was. come, is, X lust after, X please well, there is, to be, was.
Greek Monotonic
εἶναι:I. απαρ. του εἰμί (sum).
II. στον Ησίοδ., αντί ἰέναι, απαρ. του εἶμι (ibo, προχωρώ).
Greek > English (Woodhouse Verbs Reversed)
(see also εἰμί): be, belong to, constitute, exist, be at the beck of
