a verb tense in some languages (classical Greek and Sanskrit) expressing action (especially past action) without indicating its completion or continuation
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aorist::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | tense |
| Derivation | aoristic |
Examples of aorist
aorist
Secondary endings are used with the imperfect, conditional, aorist, and optative.
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There are aorist infinitives and imperatives that do not imply temporality at all.
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In the development of Latin, for example, the aorist merged with the perfect.
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Doric has also passed down its aorist terminations into most verbs of Demotic Greek.
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The tenses of Ancient Greek are similar, with an additional tense called the aorist.
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In the Arabic, aorist aspect is the logical consequence of past tense.
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There is disagreement as to which functions of the Greek aorist are inherent within it.
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Reduplication is more common in the perfect, but a few Greek verbs use it in the aorist.
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The temporal participle is used with every tense and especially aorist.
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- A verb tense in some languages (classical Greek and Sanskrit) expressing action (especially past action) without indicating its completion or continuation
- (aoristic) of or relating to the aorist tense
- Aorist (/u02C8eu026A.u0259ru1D7Bst/; abbreviated AOR) verb forms usually express perfective aspect and refer to past events, similar to a preterite...
- In Greek grammar, the aorist tense (sometimes aorist aspect, or simply aorist) is a class of verb forms that portray an action simply, in summary, or as a point. The aspectual meaning of the aorist is equivalent to the perfective aspect in other languages (not to be confused with the perfect).
- (Aoristic) elapsing, progressive.
- N. - Grammar, (tense) signifying happening in unrestricted or unspecified past. aoristic, adj. indefinite; pertaining to aorist.
