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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἐρῆμος (erêmos, “lonely”) + -ίᾱ (-íā, abstract noun suffix).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /e.rɛː.mí.aː/ → /e.riˈmi.a/ → /e.riˈmi.a/
Noun
ἐρημίᾱ • (erēmíā) f (genitive ἐρημίᾱς); first declension
- desert, desolate/uninhabited area, wilderness
- solitude, loneliness
Inflection
Descendants
Further reading
- ἐρημία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “ἐρημία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- G2047 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- bareness idem, page 63.
- barrenness idem, page 63.
- bush idem, page 106.
- dearth idem, page 198.
- defencelessness idem, page 204.
- desert idem, page 215.
- desolation idem, page 216.
- destitution idem, page 218.
- dreariness idem, page 252.
- emptiness idem, page 269.
- forlornness idem, page 338.
- friendlessness idem, page 345.
- isolation idem, page 461.
- lack idem, page 473.
- loneliness idem, page 498.
- nakedness idem, page 550.
- need idem, page 554.
- privacy idem, page 642.
- retirement idem, page 707.
- retreat idem, page 707.
- seclusion idem, page 746.
- solitude idem, page 792.
- sterility idem, page 816.
- want idem, page 961.
- waste idem, page 965.
- wilderness idem, page 979.