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Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀναχωρητικός (anakhōrētikós).
Pronunciation
Adjective
anachōrēticus (feminine anachōrētica, neuter anachōrēticum); first/second-declension adjective
- (Late Latin, Ecclesiastical Latin) anchoritic, eremitic, of or pertaining to hermits
- Synonym: erēmīticus
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
References
- anachoreticus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Souter, Alexander (1949) “anachoreticus”, in A Glossary of Later Latin to 600 A.D., 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, published 1957, page 14
- anachoreticus in Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1967– ) Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch, Munich: C.H. Beck
- R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “anachoreticus”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources, London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “anachoreticus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 42