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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἐρημιάς ἐρημιάδε ἐρημιάδες
Genitive ἐρημιάδος ἐρημιάδοιν ἐρημιάδων
Dative ἐρημιάδι ἐρημιάδοιν ἐρημιάσιν*
Accusative ἐρημιάδα ἐρημιάδε ἐρημιάδας
Vocative ἐρημιά ἐρημιάδε ἐρημιάδες

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

  • οὐδὲ ἔφθειρέ με λυμεὼν ἐρημίασ φθορεὺσ ἐν πεδίῳ, οὐδὲ ἐλυμήνατό μου τὰ ἁγνὰ τῆσ παρθενίασ λυμεὼν ἀπατηλὸσ ὄφισ. ἔμεινα δὲ χρόνον ἀκμῆσ σὺν ἀνδρί. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 18:8)
  • ἔστι τοίνυν διαβολὴ κατηγορία τισ ἐξ ἐρημίασ γινομένη, τὸν κατηγορούμενον λεληθυῖα, ἐκ τοῦ μονομεροῦσ ἀναντιλέκτωσ πεπιστευμένη. (Lucian, Calumniae non temere credundum, (no name) 6:2)
  • ὁ δὲ τὴν θύραν τοῦ δωματίου προστίθησιν εἰκῆ, καὶ τοῦτο ὡσ μὴ ὑπ’ ἀνέμου ἀνοιχθείη, καὶ γενομένου ψόφου νύκτωρ οὐδέν τι μᾶλλον θορυβεῖται ἢ μὴ γενομένου, καὶ δι’ ἐρημίασ δὲ ἀπιὼν ἄνευ ξίφουσ ὁδεύει· (Lucian, De parasito sive artem esse parasiticam, (no name) 55:3)
  • πόθεν ἐρημίασ; (Euripides, choral, strophe 16)
  • ἦλθον γὰρ αὐτοῦ πρὸσ τάφον πάρεργ’ ὁδοῦ καὶ προσπεσὼν ἔκλαυσ’ ἐρημίασ τυχών, σπονδάσ τε, λύσασ ἀσκὸν ὃν φέρω ξένοισ, ἔσπεισα, τύμβῳ δ’ ἀμφέθηκα μυρσίνασ. (Euripides, episode 1:9)

Synonyms

  1. a solitary devotee

Related

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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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