aorist

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aorist

Summary

aorist is a tense[1]. aorist ranks in the top 10% of tense entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (296 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • aorist's instance of is recorded as tense[3].
  • aorist's subclass of is recorded as perfective[4].
  • aorist's subclass of is recorded as past tense[5].
  • aorist's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02d3yn[6].
  • aorist's described by source is recorded as Encyclopedic Lexicon[7].
  • aorist's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[8].
  • aorist's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[9].
  • aorist's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[10].
  • aorist's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[11].
  • aorist's ISOCAT ID is recorded as 1240[12].
  • aorist's permanent duplicated item is recorded as Q12715456[13].
  • aorist's Encyclopædia Universalis ID is recorded as aoriste[14].
  • aorist's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as aorist[15].
  • aorist's Krugosvet article is recorded as gumanitarnye_nauki/lingvistika/AORIST.html[16].
  • aorist's Online PWN Encyclopedia ID is recorded as 3870253[17].
  • aorist's J-GLOBAL ID is recorded as 201606010138245630[18].
  • aorist's J-GLOBAL ID is recorded as 201606003216313586[19].
  • aorist's Lex ID is recorded as aorist[20].

Why It Matters

aorist ranks in the top 10% of tense entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (296 views/month).[2] aorist has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21] aorist is known by 14 alternative names across languages and contexts.[22]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . datcatinfo.termweb.eu. datcatinfo.termweb.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [21] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [22] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). aorist. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/aorist
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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_aorist_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{aorist}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/aorist}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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