ἔστε

Of the verb form:

• ἔσθ’ (ésth’), ἔστ’ (ést’) — apocopic

Of the conjunction, preposition, and adverb:

• ἕστε (héste) — Doric
• ἔντε (énte) — Locrian
• hέντε (hénte), εἴστε (eíste) — Delphic
• ἔττε (étte) — Boeotian

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

ἔστε • (éste)

1. second-person plural present active imperative of εἰμί (eimí): be! (addressing more than one person)

From *ἔν(σ)-τε (*én(s)-te), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁én. The origin of the final element, -τε (-te), is unclear. It may derive from τε (te) or directly from Proto-Indo-European *-kʷe. This Proto-Indo-European morpheme surfaces in Latin dōnec.

ἔστε • (éste)

1. until, up to that time
2. while, so long as

ἔστε • (éste)

1. up to. even to

ἔστε • (éste) (governs the accusative)

1. (of time) until, up to
2. (of space) up to

• “ἔστε”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἔστε”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἔστε in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• ἔστε in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἔστε, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 471