ἐρημία
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἐρῆμος (erêmos, “lonely”) + -ίᾱ (-íā, abstract noun suffix).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /e.rɛː.mí.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /e.re̝ˈmi.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /e.riˈmi.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /e.riˈmi.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /e.riˈmi.a/
Noun
ἐρημίᾱ • (erēmíā) f (genitive ἐρημίᾱς); first declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ ἐρημίᾱ hē erēmíā |
τὼ ἐρημίᾱ tṑ erēmíā |
αἱ ἐρημίαι hai erēmíai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς ἐρημίᾱς tês erēmíās |
τοῖν ἐρημίαιν toîn erēmíain |
τῶν ἐρημιῶν tôn erēmiôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ ἐρημίᾳ tēî erēmíāi |
τοῖν ἐρημίαιν toîn erēmíain |
ταῖς ἐρημίαις taîs erēmíais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν ἐρημίᾱν tḕn erēmíān |
τὼ ἐρημίᾱ tṑ erēmíā |
τᾱ̀ς ἐρημίᾱς tā̀s erēmíās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ἐρημίᾱ erēmíā |
ἐρημίᾱ erēmíā |
ἐρημίαι erēmíai | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Coptic: ⲉⲣⲏⲙⲓⲁ (erēmia)
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[1], 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.