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Definition of Aorist
1. Noun. A verb tense in some languages (classical Greek and Sanskrit) expressing action (especially past action) without indicating its completion or continuation.
Definition of Aorist
1. n. A tense in the Greek language, which expresses an action as completed in past time, but leaves it, in other respects, wholly indeterminate.
Definition of Aorist
1. Noun. (grammar) A verb in the aorist past, that is, in the past tense and the aorist aspect (the event described by the verb viewed as a completed whole). Also called the perfective past. The nearest equivalent in English is the simple past. The term aorist is used particularly often for verbs in Ancient and Modern Greek. ¹
2. Adjective. (grammar) Of or pertaining to a verb in the aorist aspect. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Aorist
1. a verb tense [n -S] : AORISTIC [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Aorist
Literary usage of Aorist
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association by American philological association (1897)
"irti in Thukydides is followed by the imperfect, aorist, and pluperfect indicative.
In the single passage where the optative occurs (VIII. 38. ..."
2. A Greek Grammar for Schools and Colleges by Herbert Weir Smyth (1916)
"108 ca The empiric aorist is commonly to be translated by the present or perfect
... The gnomic aorist expresses a general truth. The aorist simply states a ..."
3. A Sanskrit Grammar: Including Both the Classical Language, and the Older by William Dwight Whitney (1913)
"UNDER the name of aorist are included (as was pointed out above, ... A REDUPLICATING
aorist, perhaps in origin identical with an imperfect of the ..."
4. Journal of the American Oriental Society by American Oriental Society (1885)
"The native grammar reckons these to the s-aorist, in the same manner as those
... And the occurrence in the older language of such evident root-aorist forms ..."
5. A Grammar of the New Testament Greek by Alexander Buttmann (1873)
"Respecting this aorist, commonly designated in the gram- S mars the aorist of
... 1) this aorist, used alike by poets and prose writers of every age, ..."
6. A Grammar of the Greek Language by William Edward Jelf (1881)
"Thus the aorist Infinitive is used to express merely a simple verbal notion, ...
The aorist Infinitive is of course used in sentences which denote a past ..."
7. A Grammar of the Homeric Dialect by David Binning Monro (1882)
"The Person-Endings are the same as those of the aorist in -77, and the meaning is
... The aorist Stems in -r) and -or; appear to have originally had an ..."
8. A Greek Grammar for Schools and Colleges by Herbert Weir Smyth (1916)
"The second aorist is formed without any tense-suffix and only from the simple
verb-stem. 522. fl-Verbs. — f2-verbs make the second aorist by adding ..."
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