AORIST

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A verb tense in some languages (classical Greek and Sanskrit) expressing action (especially past action) without indicating its completion or continuation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("aorist" is a kind of...):

tense (a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time)

Derivation:

aoristic (of or relating to the aorist tense)

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