Definition of Aorists

1. Noun. (plural of aorist) ¹

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Definition of Aorists

1. aorist [n] - See also: aorist

Lexicographical Neighbors of Aorists

anæsthetics
anæsthetist
anæsthetization
anæsthetizations
anæsthetize
anæsthetized
anæsthetizes
anæsthetizing
ao dai
ao dais
aolbonics
aorist
aorist aspect
aoristic
aoristically
aorists (current term)
aorta
aorta abdominalis
aorta ascendens
aorta descendens
aorta thoracica
aortae
aortal
aortalgia
aortarctia
aortartia
aortas
aortectasis
aortectomy

Literary usage of Aorists

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Grammar of the Homeric Dialect by David Binning Monro (1882)
"In respect of form these aorists are to be compared with the Xon-Thematic ... The aorists with Stems in u and ш formed by contraction (§ 19) are parallel on ..."

2. Journal of the American Oriental Society by American Oriental Society (1897)
"The aorists in -a -sa are variations of the root-aorist and s aorist respectively. They correspond to the a verb-classes, and are tenacious of life in ..."

3. The Greek Verb, Its Structure and Development: Its Structure and Development by Georg Curtius (1880)
"aorists WITH REDUPLICATION. The aorists to be discussed here come from the reduplicated stem in just the same way aa those hitherto discussed from the ..."

4. A Greek Grammar for Schools and Colleges by Herbert Weir Smyth (1916)
"(/it-verbs); all aorists passive (except in the subjunctive); all perfects ... those second aorists in which the tense-stem does not end with the thematic ..."

5. The First Greek Book by Clarence Willard Gleason, Caroline Stone Atherton (1895)
"A few verbs in ш have second aorists inflected like; verbs in ju. The most common second aorists of this form are ..."

6. A Short Manual of Comparative Philology for Classical Students by Peter Giles (1901)
"The -s-aorists play an important part in the history of the Aryan. ... The -s-aorists. As in the present formations with -s-, the aorist has both thematic ..."

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