eremus
Latin
Alternative forms
- herēmus
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἐρῆμος (erêmos), ἤρεμος (ḗremos).
Adjective
erē̆mus (feminine erē̆ma, neuter erē̆mum); first/second-declension adjective
- (relational, Late Latin) waste, desert
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | erē̆mus | erē̆ma | erē̆mum | erē̆mī | erē̆mae | erē̆ma | |
| Genitive | erē̆mī | erē̆mae | erē̆mī | erē̆mōrum | erē̆mārum | erē̆mōrum | |
| Dative | erē̆mō | erē̆mō | erē̆mīs | ||||
| Accusative | erē̆mum | erē̆mam | erē̆mum | erē̆mōs | erē̆mās | erē̆ma | |
| Ablative | erē̆mō | erē̆mā | erē̆mō | erē̆mīs | |||
| Vocative | erē̆me | erē̆ma | erē̆mum | erē̆mī | erē̆mae | erē̆ma | |
Noun
erē̆mus m (genitive erē̆mī); second declension
- (Late Latin) wasteland, wilderness, desert
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | erē̆mus | erē̆mī |
| Genitive | erē̆mī | erē̆mōrum |
| Dative | erē̆mō | erē̆mīs |
| Accusative | erē̆mum | erē̆mōs |
| Ablative | erē̆mō | erē̆mīs |
| Vocative | erē̆me | erē̆mī |
Descendants
- Aromanian: ermu
- Asturian: ermu
- Catalan: erm
- Galician: ermo
- Italian: ermo, eremo
- Occitan: èrm
- Portuguese: ermo
- Spanish: yermo
References
- “eremus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- eremus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- eremus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette