ἀόριστος
See also: αόριστος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
ἀ- (a-, “not”) + ὁρῐστός (horistós, “limited”), from ὁρίζω (horízō, “to delineate, to define”), a verbalization of the noun ὅρος (hóros, “boundary”)
Adjective
ᾰ̓όρῐστος • (aóristos) m or f (neuter ᾰ̓όρῐστον); second declension
- indefinite, indeterminate
- without boundaries, debatable
- the phrase ὁ ἀόριστος (χρόνος) (ho aóristos (khrónos)): the aorist tense
Inflection
Second declension of ᾰ̓όρῐστος; ᾰ̓όρῐστον (Attic)
Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | |||||||||||
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Case/Gender | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | ||||||||
Nominative | ᾰ̓όρῐστος aóristos | ᾰ̓όρῐστον aóriston | ᾰ̓ορῐ́στω aorístō | ᾰ̓ορῐ́στω aorístō | ᾰ̓όρῐστοι aóristoi | ᾰ̓όρῐστᾰ aórista | ||||||||
Genitive | ᾰ̓ορῐ́στου aorístou | ᾰ̓ορῐ́στου aorístou | ᾰ̓ορῐ́στοιν aorístoin | ᾰ̓ορῐ́στοιν aorístoin | ᾰ̓ορῐ́στων aorístōn | ᾰ̓ορῐ́στων aorístōn | ||||||||
Dative | ᾰ̓ορῐ́στῳ aorístōi | ᾰ̓ορῐ́στῳ aorístōi | ᾰ̓ορῐ́στοιν aorístoin | ᾰ̓ορῐ́στοιν aorístoin | ᾰ̓ορῐ́στοις aorístois | ᾰ̓ορῐ́στοις aorístois | ||||||||
Accusative | ᾰ̓όρῐστον aóriston | ᾰ̓όρῐστον aóriston | ᾰ̓ορῐ́στω aorístō | ᾰ̓ορῐ́στω aorístō | ᾰ̓ορῐ́στους aorístous | ᾰ̓όρῐστᾰ aórista | ||||||||
Vocative | ᾰ̓όρῐστε aóriste | ᾰ̓όρῐστον aóriston | ᾰ̓ορῐ́στω aorístō | ᾰ̓ορῐ́στω aorístō | ᾰ̓όρῐστοι aóristoi | ᾰ̓όρῐστᾰ aórista | ||||||||
Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | |||||||||||
ᾰ̓ορῐ́στως aorístōs | ᾰ̓ορῐστότερος aoristóteros | ᾰ̓ορῐστότᾰτος aoristótatos | ||||||||||||
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Antonyms
- (indefinite): ὡρισμένος (hōrisménos)
Descendants
- Greek: αόριστος (aóristos)
- → Latin: aoristus
- → Dutch: aoristus
- → French: aoriste
Further reading
- “ἀόριστος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἀόριστος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἀόριστος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἀόριστος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- indefinable idem, page 432.
- indefinite idem, page 432.
- indeterminate idem, page 432.
- undefinable idem, page 912.
- undefined idem, page 912.
- undetermined idem, page 914.
- unsettled idem, page 931.