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ἐρημία

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐρημία

Structure: ἐρημι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. a solitude, desert, wilderness
  2. solitude, loneliness, isolation, desolation, being left alone
  3. want of, absence, none, freedom from

Declension

First declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • μόχθοισ τ’ ὠκυδρόμοισ τ’ ἀέλ‐ λαισ θρῴσκει πεδίον παραποτάμιον, ἡδομένα βροτῶν ἐρημίαισ σκιαρο‐ κόμοιό τ’ ἔρνεσιν ὕλασ. (Euripides, choral, strophe 12)
  • "τὴν εὑρ́εσιν τῆσ μουσικῆσ τοῖσ ἀρχαίοισ ἐπινοηθῆναι ἀπὸ τῶν ἐν ταῖσ ἐρημίαισ ᾀδόντων ὀρνίθων ὧν κατὰ μίμησιν λαβεῖν στάσιν τὴν μουσικήν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 435)
  • οὐδὲ γὰρ ἐπὶ τενάγουσ ἔχεισ νέμεσθαι, φιληδοῦντασ ἀμμώδεσιν ἐρημίαισ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 90 3:2)
  • εἰ γὰρ ἡ μὲν πρᾶξισ αὕτη ἔσται, ὥσπερ εἰώθε γίγνεσθαι, λάθρᾳ καὶ ἐν ἐρημίαισ καὶ ἐν ἰδίαισ οἰκίαισ, ὁ δὲ ἄριστα μὲν εἰδώσ, καταισχύνασ δέ τινα τῶν πολιτῶν, ἐὰν τἀληθῆ μαρτυρήσῃ, ἔνοχοσ ἔσται τοῖσ μεγίστοισ ἐπιτιμίοισ, ὁ δὲ κρινόμενοσ καταμεμαρτυρημένοσ ὑπὸ τοῦ ἑαυτοῦ βίου καὶ τῆσ ἀληθείασ ἀξιώσει μὴ ἐξ ὧν γιγνώσκεται, ἀλλ’ ἐκ τῶν μαρτυριῶν κρίνεσθαι, ἀνῄρηται ὁ νόμοσ καὶ ἡ ἀλήθεια, καὶ δέδεικται φανερὰ ὁδόσ, δι’ ἧσ οἱ τὰ μέγιστα κακουργοῦντεσ ἀποφεύξονται. (Aeschines, Speeches, , section 901)
  • τοὺσ νέουσ ἔφη δεῖν ἐπὶ μὲν τῆσ οἰκίασ τοὺσ γονέασ αἰδεῖσθαι, ἐν δὲ ταῖσ ὁδοῖσ τοὺσ ἀπαντῶντασ, ἐν δὲ ταῖσ ἐρημίαισ ἑαυτούσ. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, E, Kef. e'. DHMHTRIOS 8:8)

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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