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Asigmatic Aorist.
Asigmatic Aorist - as a noun
An aorist that lacks the sigma or -s phoneme.
Example: "Over time, the asigmatic aorist became increasingly marked as an archaic language feature and was eventually replaced by the other two aorist formations."
Example Sentences
"The asigmatic aorist is a verb form in Ancient Greek that is characterized by the absence of the thematic vowel."
"In the Homeric dialect, the asigmatic aorist is more common than the sigmatic aorist."
"Phobos, meaning 'fear,' has an asigmatic aorist with the stem phob-."
"The asigmatic aorist is often used to denote completed actions in the past."
"A verb that belongs to the second aorist conjugation class may have either a sigmatic or an asigmatic aorist."
