# ἐσθίω
## Ancient Greek
### Alternative forms

* ἔσθω (ésthō) — poetic
* ἔδω (édō) — Epic

### Etymology

Some suggest that this form comes from the original imperative *ἔσθι (*ésthi) of ἔδω (édō), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ed- (“to eat”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /es.tʰí.ɔː/ → /esˈθi.o/ → /esˈθi.o/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /es.tʰí.ɔː/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /esˈtʰi.o/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /esˈθi.o/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /esˈθi.o/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /esˈθi.o/

### Verb

ἐσθίω • (esthíō)
* to eat, devour, consume
** 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Fragments 253
** 421 BCE, Aristophanes, Peace 1357
** 424 BCE, Aristophanes, The Knights 362
** 480 BCE – 406 BCE, Euripides, Cyclops 233
** 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Works and Days 147
** 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Theogony 524
** 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Theogony 773
** 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates of Kos, Epidemics 4.20
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 4.237
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 17.542
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 23.182
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 2.123
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 2.305
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 4.318
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 9.292
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 20.348
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 21.69
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 22.56
** 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, The Cock 4
** 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Fragments 671
** 371 BCE – 287 BCE, Theophrastus, Characters 19.3
** 371 BCE – 287 BCE, Theophrastus, Enquiry into Plants 1.12.4
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 4.8.20
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 3.3.6
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 1.6.17
** 7th–6th centuries BC, Homeric Hymn to Hermes 560
* to fret, vex
** 422 BCE, Aristophanes, The Wasps 287
** 422 BCE, Aristophanes, The Wasps 1083
* to take in one's mouth
** 170 CE – 250 CE, Philostratus, Imagines 1.20

#### Derived terms

* ἀνεσθίω (anesthíō)
* ἀπεσθίω (apesthíō)
* διεσθίω (diesthíō)
* ἐξεσθίω (exesthíō)
* ἐπεσθίω (epesthíō)
* κατεσθίω (katesthíō)
* κατεσθιω (katesthiō)
* παρεσθίω (paresthíō)
* περιεσθίω (periesthíō)
* προεσθίω (proesthíō)
* συνεσθίω (sunesthíō)

#### Related terms

* ἔδεσμα (édesma)
* ἐδεστέον (edestéon)
* ἐδεστής (edestḗs)
* ἐδεστός (edestós)
* ἐδητύς (edētús)
* νῆστις (nêstis)

### References

* ↑ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἐσθίω”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 470

### Further reading

* “ἐσθίω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “ἐσθίω”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “ἐσθίω”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
* ἐσθίω in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
* Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
* ἐσθίω in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
* G2068 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
* “ἐσθίω”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011