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ἐρημιάς

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐρημιάς ἐρημιάδος

Structure: ἐρημιαδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: e)rh=mos

Sense

  1. a solitary devotee

Declension

Third 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

  • τὰ γὰρ ἔθνη καὶ οἱ βασιλεῖσ, οἵτινεσ οὐ δουλεύσουσί σοι, ἀπολοῦνται καὶ τὰ ἔθνη ἐρημίᾳ ἐρημωθήσεται. (Septuagint, Liber Isaiae 60:12)
  • ὥσπερ γὰρ ἐχάρη ἐπὶ τῇ σῇ πτώσει καὶ εὐφράνθη ἐπὶ τῷ πτώματί σου, οὕτωσ λυπηθήσεται ἐπὶ τῇ ἑαυτῆσ ἐρημίᾳ. (Septuagint, Liber Baruch 4:33)
  • ἐγὼ γὰρ πάλαι ὁρῶσά σε νέον ὄντα καὶ καλὸν ὁποῖον οὐκ οἶδα εἴ τινα ἕτερον ἡ Φρυγία τρέφει, μακαρίζω μὲν τοῦ κάλλουσ, αἰτιῶμαι δὲ τὸ μὴ ἀπολιπόντα τοὺσ σκοπέλουσ καὶ ταυτασὶ τὰσ πέτρασ κατ’ ἄστυ ζῆν, ἀλλὰ διαφθείρειν τὸ κάλλοσ ἐν ἐρημίᾳ. (Lucian, Dearum judicium, (no name) 13:3)
  • καίτοι ταῦτα πάντα ὁπόσα εἶπον, τὸ θάλποσ, τὸ δίψοσ, ἡ ἐρημία, τὸ μηδὲν ἔχειν ἐκ τῆσ γῆσ λαβεῖν, ἧττον ὑμῖν δυσχερῆ εἶναι δόξει τοῦ λεχθησομένου, καὶ δἰ ὃ φευκτέα πάντωσ ἡ χώρα ἐκείνη· (Lucian, Dipsades 4:1)
  • οὐδ’ ἡντιναοῦν ἀλλὰ πενόμενοσ ἐγὼ καὶ τῶν ἀναγκαίων ἀπορούμενοσ καὶ ὑπὸ τῶν διδασκάλων ἐλεούμενοσ ἐπαιδευόμην, καί μοι τοιαῦτα παρὰ τοῦ πατρὸσ ἦν πρὸσ τὸ μαθεῖν ἐφόδια, λύπη καὶ ἐρημία καὶ ἀπορία καὶ μῖσοσ οἰκείων καὶ ἀποστροφὴ συγγενῶν. (Lucian, Abdicatus, (no name) 24:6)

Synonyms

  1. a solitary devotee

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

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