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单词 aorist
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aorist

/ˈeɪərɪst / /ˈɛːrɪst/
Grammar
adjective
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.Two of the more troublesome phenomena are verbs with an active present and future middle; and ‘passive deponents,’ i.e., ‘deponent’ verbs whose aorists are passive in form, not middle....
  • However, in the indicative mood, the aorist usually indicates past time.
  • The minority of these future middle verbs form the aorist normally.
noun
The aorist tense.When the forgiveness of sins is considered, the use of the aorist tense in the Lord's Prayer makes clear that only a final (one-time only) forgiveness is sought when the Lord comes....
  • The previous section points out that Koine ‘preferred the aorist passive in the case of deponents (where a real passive meaning is at best a possibility)’.
  • It is quite intriguing to notice that the majority of these active-present, future-middle verbs have a stem change in the aorist (a second aorist form).

Derivatives

aoristic

/eɪəˈrɪstɪk/ /ɛːˈrɪstɪk/ adjective ...
  • In Latin, perfective and aoristic semantics fused in the perfect, leaving the perfect and imperfect stems.
  • The aoristic present presents the action as a simple event or as a present fact without any reference to its progress.
  • Perfect can be completed aspect in present time or aoristic aspect in past time.

Origin

Late 16th century: from Greek aoristos 'indefinite', from a- 'not' + horizein 'define, limit'.

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