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Definitions of aorist in various dictionaries:
noun - a verb tense in some languages (classical Greek and Sanskrit) expressing action (especially past action) without indicating its completion or continuation
A form of a verb in some languages, such as Classical Greek, that expresses action without indicating its completion or continuation.
A form of a verb in some languages, such as Classical Greek or Sanskrit, that in the indicative mood expresses past action.
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| Last Seen in these Crosswords & Puzzles |
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| Jan 6 2018 Irish Times (Crosaire) |
| Dec 2 2015 The Guardian - Cryptic crossword |
| Dec 16 2005 USA Today |
| Nov 19 2003 The Guardian - Cryptic crossword |
| Apr 24 2002 Irish Times (Crosaire) |
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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 |
| A form of a verb in some languages, such as Classical Greek, that expresses action without indicating its completion or continuation. |
| A form of a verb in some languages, such as Classical Greek or Sanskrit, that in the indicative mood expresses past action. |
| Relating to or denoting a past tense of a verb (especially in Greek), which does not contain any reference to duration or completion of the action. |
| The aorist tense. |
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Aorist (; abbreviated AOR) verb forms usually express perfective aspect and refer to past events, similar to a preterite. Ancient Greek grammar had the aorist form, and the grammars of other Indo-European languages and languages influenced by the Indo-European grammatical tradition, such as Middle Persian, Sanskrit, Armenian, the South Slavic languages, and Georgian also have forms referred to as aorist. * The word comes from Ancient Greek aóristos "indefinite", as the aorist was the unmarked (default) form of the verb, and thus did not have the implications of the imperfective aspect, which referred to an ongoing or repeated situation, or the perfect, which referred to a situation with a continuing relevance; instead it described an action "pure and simple".Because the aorist was the unmarked aspect in Ancient Greek, the term is sometimes applied to unmarked verb forms in other languages, such as the habitual aspect in Turkish. |