aorist

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English

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Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀόριστος (aóristos, “unbounded”).

Pronunciation

Noun

aorist (plural aorists)

  1. (grammar) A verb paradigm found in certain languages, usually an unmarked form or one that expresses the perfective or aorist aspect.
  2. (grammar) A particular verb in the aorist.

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Adjective

aorist (not comparable)

  1. (grammar) Of or pertaining to a verb in the aorist aspect.
    the aorist stem of a verb

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Czech

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Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀόριστος (aóristos, “unbounded”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • Hyphenation: ao‧rist

Noun

aorist m inan

  1. aorist (a grammatical category of verbs that is often a perfective past)
    • 1986, Arnošt Lamprecht, Dušan Šlosar, Jaroslav Bauer, Historická mluvnice češtiny‎, Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, page 239:
      V převážné většině případů se ve staré češtině tvoří aorist pouze od sloves dokonavých.
      In most cases aorist is formed only from perfective verbs in Old Czech.
  2. aorist (a particular verb in the aorist)
    • 1860, F. B. Květ, Staročeská mluvnice‎, Praha: Kober & Markgraf, page 118:
      Kdy aoristy v češtině zanikly, zevrubně se určiti nedá.
      It is not possible to determine thoroughly when aorists vanished in Czech.

Declension

Declension of aorist (hard masculine inanimate)
singular plural
nominative aorist aoristy
genitive aoristu aoristů
dative aoristu aoristům
accusative aorist aoristy
vocative aoriste aoristy
locative aoristu aoristech
instrumental aoristem aoristy

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Further reading

  • aorist in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • aorist in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

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Danish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀόριστος (aóristos, “indefinite, indeterminate”), from ἀ- (a-, “un”) +‎ ὁρίζω (horízō, “to determine”) +‎ -τος (-tos, “-able”).

Pronunciation

Noun

aorist c (singular definite aoristen, plural indefinite aorister)

  1. aorist (a past tense formation in Classical and Modern Greek and related formations in other Indo-European languages)
  2. aorist (verbal aspect in Classical and Modern Greek, equivalent to perfective)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French aoriste.

Noun

aorist n (plural aoriste)

  1. aorist

Declension

Declension of aorist
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) aorist aoristul (niște) aoriste aoristele
genitive/dative (unui) aorist aoristului (unor) aoriste aoristelor
vocative aoristule aoristelor

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /âorist/
  • Hyphenation: a‧o‧rist

Noun

ȁorist m (Cyrillic spelling а̏орист)

  1. (grammar, uncountable) aorist aspect
  2. (countable) a word in aorist aspect

Declension

Declension of aorist
singular plural
nominative aorist aoristi
genitive aorista aorista
dative aoristu aoristima
accusative aorist aoriste
vocative aoriste aoristi
locative aoristu aoristima
instrumental aoristom aoristima
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