aphorist

English

Noun

aphorist (plural aphorists)

1. A person who creates or recites aphorisms.
   • 1873, J. Muir, Original Sanskrit Texts on the Origin and History of the People of India‎^[1], 2nd edition, volume 3, page 110:

     Leaving the reader to study the details of the discussion in Dr. Ballantyne's aphorisms of the Nyāya (Part Second, pp. 77 ff.), I will pass over most of the Sūtras, and merely quote the principal conclusions of the Nyāya aphorist.

   • 1987, Richard T. Gray, Constructive Destruction: Kafka's Aphorisms: Literary Tradition and Literary Transformation‎^[2]:

     In the examination of the revisions which these texts underwent, we have stolen a rare glance into the interior of the workshop of the aphorist.

   • 1998, George C. Schoolfield, A History of Finland's Literature‎^[3], page 142:

     [Juhani Siljo]'s natural form of expression was the aphorism; he is one of the best aphorists of his time and in Finnish literature.

Derived terms

• aphoristic

 

Translations

person who writes or recites aphorisms

• Czech: aforista m
• Danish: aforistiker c
• Finnish: aforisti
• German: Aphoristiker (de) m, Aphoristikerin (de) f
• Irish: nathaí m, nathaíodóir m, nathaire m, nathánaí m
• Italian: aforista m or f
• Macedonian: афорист m (aforist)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: aforistiker m

  Nynorsk: aforistikar m

• Polish: aforysta (pl) m, aforystka (pl) f
• Portuguese: aforista m or f
• Swedish: aforistiker (sv) c