ἐρημίτης Ancient Greek · revision 3132

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=3rd–1st century BC, Septuagint|origins=grc ἔρημος}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (5th-century BC Attic): /e.rɛː.mǐː.tɛːs/^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (4th-century AD Koine): /e.riˈmi.tis/^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (10th-century Byzantine): /e.riˈmi.tis/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''ἐρημῑ́της''' (erēmī́tēs) ''m''^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is derived from [[ἔρημος|tr=érēmos|t=desolate; desert]] with the suffix [[m|grc|-ίτης|tr=-ítēs]].^(Wiktionary)^(Triantafyllidis 1998)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The Septuagint uses it once, in Job, as an adjective, “of the desert”, of the wild ass.^(Lust 2003)^(LSJ 1940) Lust calls it a new word.^(Lust 2003)^(LSJ 1940)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In Byzantine Greek it became a noun for a desert-dweller, a hermit, since such ascetics withdrew to the desert for religious reasons.^(Wiktionary)^(Triantafyllidis 1998) Late Latin borrowed it as [[m|la-lat|erēmīta]], the source of French ''ermite''.^(Wiktionary)^(Triantafyllidis 1998) Modern Greek [[m|el|ερημίτης|tr=erimítis]] is an anchorite, and, after French, a recluse who avoids other people.^(Triantafyllidis 1998)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 3rd–1st century BC – The Septuagint uses it for “of the desert”.^(Lust 2003)^(LSJ 1940)

+ * Byzantine period – It is used for a hermit.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Of the desert, living in the [[m|en|desert]].^(LSJ 1940)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ===Noun===

+ # ''(Byzantine)'' A desert-dweller, a [[m|en|hermit]].^(Wiktionary)^(Triantafyllidis 1998)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[ἔρημος|tr=érēmos]]

+ * [[la|eremita]]

+ * [[en|hermit]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}