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aorist
[ ey-uh-rist ]
noun
- a verb tense, as in Classical Greek, expressing action or, in the indicative mood, past action, without further limitation or implication.
adjective
- of or in this tense.
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Derived Forms
- ˌaoˈristically, adverb
- ˌaoˈristic, adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of aorist1
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Example Sentences
The perfect seems at first sight out of place, but it is more expressive than the aorist.
This (observe the aorist ) implies that he brought some money with him from Macedonia to Corinth.
What if the future be derived from the aorist, instead of the aorist from the future?
And Cyrus adds that he was whipped for his pains, as we are in our villages for forgetting the first aorist of———.
In the Mœso-Gothic, however, there was a true reduplicate form; in other words, a perfect tense as well as an aorist.
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