FromAncient Greekἀόριστος(aóristos,“unbounded”).
aorist (pluralaorists)
- (grammar) Averbparadigm found in certain languages, usually anunmarked form or one that expresses theperfective oraorist aspect.
- (grammar) A particularverb in the aorist.
aorist (notcomparable)
- (grammar) Of or pertaining to a verb in theaorist aspect.
theaorist stem of a verb
pertaining to verb in aorist aspect
Borrowed fromAncient Greekἀόριστος(aóristos,“unbounded”). First attested in the 19th century.[1]
- IPA(key): [ˈaorɪst]
- Hyphenation:ao‧rist
aorist m inan
- aorist(a grammatical category ofverbs that is often aperfective past)[19th c.]
1986, Arnošt Lamprecht, Dušan Šlosar, Jaroslav Bauer,Historická mluvnice češtiny[1], Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, page239:V převážné většině případů se ve staré češtině tvoříaorist pouze od sloves dokonavých.- In most casesaorist is formed only from perfective verbs inOld Czech.
- aorist(a particularverb in the aorist)[19th c.]
1860, F. B. Květ,Staročeská mluvnice[2], Praha: Kober & Markgraf, page118:Kdyaoristy v češtině zanikly, zevrubně se určiti nedá.- It is not possible to determine thoroughly whenaorists vanished in Czech.
Declension ofaorist (hard masculine inanimate)
- ^Rejzek, Jiří (2015), “aorist”, inČeský etymologický slovník [Czech Etymological Dictionary] (in Czech), 3rd (revised and expanded) edition, Praha: LEDA,→ISBN, page59
FromAncient Greekἀόριστος(aóristos,“indefinite, indeterminate”), fromἀ-(a-,“un”) +ὁρίζω(horízō,“to determine”) +-τος(-tos,“-able”).
- IPA(key): [ɑoˈʁisd̥],[ɑwˈʁisd̥]
aorist c (singular definiteaoristen,plural indefiniteaorister)
- aorist(a past tense formation in Classical and Modern Greek and related formations in other Indo-European languages)
- aorist(verbal aspect in Classical and Modern Greek, equivalent toperfective)
Borrowed fromFrenchaoriste.
aorist n (pluralaoriste)
- aorist
- IPA(key): /âorist/
- Hyphenation:a‧o‧rist
ȁorist m inan (Cyrillic spellingа̏орист)
- (grammar, uncountable)aorist aspect
- (countable) a word in aorist aspect
