ἐρημία

See also: ερημία and ερημιά

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἐρῆμος (erêmos, “lonely”) +‎ -ίᾱ (-íā, abstract noun suffix).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /e.rɛː.mí.aː/ → /e.riˈmi.a/ → /e.riˈmi.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /e.rɛː.mí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /e.re̝ˈmi.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /e.riˈmi.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /e.riˈmi.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /e.riˈmi.a/

Noun

ἐρημίᾱ • (erēmíā) f (genitive ἐρημίᾱς); first declension

1. desert, desolate/uninhabited area, wilderness
2. solitude, loneliness

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ἐρημίᾱ; τῆς ἐρημίᾱς (Attic)

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 têi 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
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

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.