Definitions for aorist

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aorist a·o·rist

Spelling: [ey-uh-rist]

IPA: /ˈeɪ ə rɪst/

Aorist is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 173 anagrams from letters in aorist (aiorst).

Definitions for aorist

noun

1. a verb tense, as in Classical Greek, expressing action or, in the indicative mood, past action, without further limitation or implication.

adjective

1. of or in this tense.

Origin of aorist

1575-85; Greek aóristos unlimited, equivalent to a- a-⁶ + (h)oristós limited (*horid- (base of horízein to bound, limit; see horizon

Examples for aorist

The time-forms of the verb are three, the present, the aorist, and the future.

What if the future be derived from the aorist, instead of the aorist from the future?

The distinctive forms are the present, the perfect, and the aorist.

The English prterite is the equivalent, not to the Greek perfect but the Greek aorist.

But it is a case in which it is quite permissible to render the Greek aorist by the English perfect.

The aorist form has, besides its own, the sense of the perfect.

Expressed, in English, by the prterite, in Greek by the aorist.

In the following, an aorist is followed not by an optative, but by a subjunctive.

That the second aorist is an imperfect formed from this secondary present.

Wherever there is the perfect, the aorist is wanting, and vice vers.