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Aorist vs Preterite - What's the difference?

aorist | preterite |

In grammar terms the difference between aorist and preterite

is that aorist is of or pertaining to a verb in the aorist aspect while preterite is the preterite tense, simple past tense: the grammatical tense that determines the specific initiation or termination of an action in the past.

aorist

English

(wikipedia aorist)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (grammar) A verb in the aorist past, that is, in the past tense and the aorist aspect (the event described by the verb viewed as a completed whole). Also called the perfective past. The nearest equivalent in English is the simple past. The term aorist is used particularly often for verbs in Albanian, Ancient and Modern Greek.

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • (grammar) Of or pertaining to a verb in the aorist aspect.
    • the aorist stem of a verb

    Derived terms

    * aoristic

    Anagrams

    * * * ---- ==Serbo-Croatian==

    Noun

  • aorist aspect
  • a word in aorist aspect

    • Declension

    {{sh-decl-noun, aorist, aoristi , aorista, aorista , aoristu, aoristima , aorist, aoriste , aoriste, aoristi , aoristu, aoristima , aoristom, aoristima }}

    preterite

    English

    Alternative forms

    * preterit (US) * praeterite * (archaic) *

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (grammar, of a tense) showing an action at a determined moment in the past.
  • Belonging wholly to the past; passed by.
  • * Lowell
    • Things and persons as thoroughly preterite as Romulus or Numa.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (grammar) The preterite tense, simple past tense: the grammatical tense that determines the specific initiation or termination of an action in the past.

    • Related terms

    * preterition * preteritive