Aorist Definition

āər-ĭst
noun
A form of a verb in some languages, such as Classical Greek, that expresses action without indicating its completion or continuation.
American Heritage
A past tense of Greek verbs, denoting an action without indicating whether completed, continued, or repeated.
Webster's New World
A form of a verb in some languages, such as Classical Greek or Sanskrit, that in the indicative mood expresses past action.
American Heritage

(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.

Wiktionary
adjective
Designating or in this tense.
Webster's New World
(grammar) Of or pertaining to a verb in the aorist aspect.
The aorist stem of a verb.
Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Aorist

Noun

Singular:
aorist
Plural:
aorists

Origin of Aorist

  • From Greek aoristos indefinite, aorist tense a- not a–1 horistos definable (from horizein to define horizon)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Ancient Greek ἀόριστος (aoristos, “not done, not completed”).

    From Wiktionary

Aorist Sentence Examples

  • The first aorist in Greek being a " weak " tense, i.e.

  • After the aorist infinitive clause " Before Abraham was ", properly the perfect clause and tense should follow but does not.

  • The grammar of the Stoics, gradually elaborated by Zeno, Cleanthes and Chrysippus, supplied a terminology which, in words such as " genitive," " accusative " and " aorist," has become a permanent part of the grammarian's vocabulary; and the study of this grammar found its earliest home in Pergamum.

  • Thus we find in Homer, but not in the later language (a) The second aorist middle without the " thematic " E or as g - was struck; Ec/Oc-ro, perished; aA-To, leaped.

  • It will be evident that under this rule the perfect and first aorist subjunctive should always take a short vowel; and this accordingly is the case, with very few exceptions.

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