Talk:aorist

RFV discussion: January–February 2023
Noun sense 3: "gnomic aorist". (Hopelessly circular as it stands, so it needs rephrasing too, if okay.) Equinox ◑ 23:02, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
 * I think this might be a broader problem of defining the term. The aorist (primarily in Ancient Greek) is a form of a verb or morphological feature. Usually it expresses the aorist aspect aka perfective, as sense 1 says. But sometimes it expresses other stuff, the "gnomic aorist" being a well-known example. Is that a separate sense of "aorist"? I doubt it: it's the same thing being applied in a different way. Just rewrite sense 1 to specify that it's a verb form and say usually it expresses the perfective aspect. —Al-Muqanna المقنع (talk) 23:13, 4 January 2023 (UTC)

RFV Failed. Ioaxxere (talk) 23:49, 4 February 2023 (UTC)