Associations to the word «Aorist»
Noun
Adjective
- Imperfect
- Tense
- Indicative
- Thematic
- Imperative
- Passive
- Verbal
- Unmarked
- Grammatical
- Root
- Proto
- Conditional
- Slavic
- Habitual
- Past
- Plural
- Morphological
- Macedonian
- Perfect
- Singular
- Archaic
- Bulgarian
- Indefinite
- Masculine
- Indirect
- Greek
- Feminine
- Nominal
- Synthetic
- Future
- Definite
- Georgian
- Compound
- Present
- Consecutive
- Express
- Active
- Meaning
- Ancient
- Formed
- Simple
- Latin
- Continuous
- Distinct
- Identical
- Turkish
- Equivalent
- Grade
- Expressed
Adverb
Wiktionary
AORIST, noun. (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 Albanian, Ancient and Modern Greek.
AORIST, adjective. (grammar) Of or pertaining to a verb in the aorist aspect.
AORIST ASPECT, noun. (grammar) A temporal feature of the verb which denotes the speaker's standpoint of the event described by the verb, as from outside of the event and seeing it as a completed whole.
Dictionary definition
AORIST, noun. A verb tense in some languages (classical Greek and Sanskrit) expressing action (especially past action) without indicating its completion or continuation.
Wise words
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing
in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in
the hands of one who knows how to combine them.